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Owners’ yawns are ‘contagious’ to dogs

August 8, 2013 by

Man's best friend has proven just how loyal he is, as a recent study published in PLOS ONE reveals that the contagious yawns dogs get from their owners are a result of empathy rather than stress, the mechanism researchers previously suspected. We have all been there: four o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, your co-worker yawns and then it spreads around the office...

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