… For example, the current study demonstrated that dogs appear to catch human yawns. …
they yawn contagiously to conspecifics' yawns. If the dogs' capacity for contagious yawning has …

… dogs found to catch human yawns, but they were also found to yawn more at familiar than
unfamiliar yawns. … the mechanisms underlying contagious yawning in dogs, this study provides …

… some dogs yawn in response to human yawns; particularly, whether these dogs are exceptional
in their ability to understand human … Sixty shelter dogs were exposed to yawning and …

… investigate if human yawning is contagious to dogs, and how … We also tested if contagious
yawning was related to dogsʼ … Dogs (N = 33) were presented with human yawns (yawning …

… dogs clearly respond to human and dog social signals, we hypothesized that dogs would
display contagious yawning … yawns in response to viewing a human yawning than conspecifics’ …

… yawning. While we found that five of 19 dogs did yawn in response to an unfamiliar human
yawning, … -based, emotionally connected yawning contagion in dogs and casts doubt on the …

… ontogeny of domestic dogs’ (Canis lupus familiaris) susceptibility to yawn contagion, and …
that dogs ‘catch’ human yawns. Viewing an unfamiliar human yawn elicited yawning in 69 % of …

… , women reported a higher frequency of yawning in response to dog yawns, and men
reported a higher frequency of yawning in response to cat yawns. Overall, these findings do not …

… dogs have also been reported to yawn contagiously … yawn in response to yawns from
non-human animals. Given that this phenomenon occurs in other species, and contagious yawning …

… yawning can be observed in the domestic dog. In particular, we tested whether dogs yawn
when they see a human yawning … to contagious yawning observed in humans and other …