Birds, not just mammals, copy yawns

28 mayo 2015

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.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/sQJrIVipD6k/150528083830.htm

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