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A white tiger yawning A cougar yawning. Mammals, birds, and other vertebrates yawn. [62] In animals, yawning can serve as a warning signal. Charles Darwin's book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, mentions that baboons yawn to threaten their enemies, possibly by displaying large canine teeth. [63]
Yawning is also phylogenetically preserved, meaning it occurs in many different animal species including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, Epstein adds. Why do I yawn when I’m bored?
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Sleep can follow a physiological or behavioral definition. In the physiological sense, sleep is a state characterized by reversible unconsciousness, special brainwave patterns, sporadic eye movement, loss of muscle tone (possibly with some exceptions; see below regarding the sleep of birds and of aquatic mammals), and a compensatory increase following deprivation of the state, this last known ...
Merely thinking about or seeing someone yawning can make you yawn. But why?
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This is a more accurate defenition of a yawn and animals that perform yawning. Stretching the eardrums is only a small part of the yawn and refers to one specific hypothesis (middle ear clearing). This is considered a side-effect by many scientists in the field of yawning, thus I would not state it in the defenition.