Male Yawning Is More Contagious than Female Yawning among Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Jorg J. M. Massen; Dorith A. Vermunt; Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040697

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Male Yawning Is More Contagious than Female Yawning among Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Jorg J. M. Massen ,

* E-mail: jorgmassen@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Dorith A. Vermunt,

Affiliation Department of Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

Affiliations Department of Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Ethology Research, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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Male Yawning Is More Contagious than Female Yawning among Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Jorg J. M. Massen,
Dorith A. Vermunt,
Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

Published: July 11, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040697

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