{"id":25160,"date":"2022-11-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=25160"},"modified":"2022-10-26T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T13:25:55","slug":"can-you-catch-a-yawn-from-a-chimpanzee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/can-you-catch-a-yawn-from-a-chimpanzee\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Catch a Yawn from a Chimpanzee?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Make sure you don\u2019t scroll down to the photos below unless you have a pillow and a blanket ready for a nap. These images will make you sleeepppy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, a bunch of researchers sat next to 33 chimpanzees and started yawning a lot. Guess what the chimpanzees did? They yawned back! They helped prove what we’ve all known for a long time: yawning is contagious!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers made a lot of chimps look pretty sleepy, but no word yet if there was an increase in nap time for both researchers and chimpanzees.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If we can make chimpanzees yawn, can animals make us yawn? Scroll through these pictures and let us know if feel a yawn coming on! <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Fox. Photo credit: Tambako Jaguar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\"japanese
Japanese snow monkey <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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leopard yawn. Flickr user Knar Bedian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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lion yawning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Wolf. Photo credit: Flick user breenzanemom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Baby monkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Polar bear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Red panda. Photo credit: Flickr User, hizonic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out these yawning animals and see if they make you feel sleepy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[27,569,570],"class_list":{"0":"post-25160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-photograph","11":"tag-sleep","12":"tag-yawn"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612797,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions\/612797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}