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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Sun May 31, 2015, 12:45 PM May 2015

Birds, not just mammals, copy yawns

Birds, not just mammals, copy yawns

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Have you ever caught yourself yawning right after someone else did? The same happens to budgies. Biologists have just noted that contagious yawning also occurs between members of a bird species. Contagious yawning was previously thought only to occur between humans, domestic dogs, chimpanzees and a type of rodent aptly called the high-yawning Sprague-Dawley rat.

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Birds, not just mammals, copy yawns (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP

I wonder how many species they tested to find that info. pennylane100 May 2015 #1

pennylane100

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1. I wonder how many species they tested to find that info.

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Sun May 31, 2015, 01:03 PM

May 2015

I did a little googling to find out and learned far more than I wanted to know about lab rats and how they are treated.

Memo to self: Make a donation to PETA.

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