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Contagious Yawning in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana): Responses to Other Elephants and Familiar Humans

While spontaneous yawning is common across all vertebrate classes, contagious yawning is less common and has been observed only in a few species of social animals. Interspecific contagious yawning in response to yawning by humans has been observed only by chimpanzees and dogs. After confirming addit...

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Autores principales: Rossman, Zoë T., Padfield, Clare, Young, Debbie, Hart, Benjamin L., Hart, Lynette A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7225334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32457923
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00252