Social modulation of contagious yawning in wolves

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Romero, Teresa ^a,b   Ito, Marie ^a   Saito, Atsuko ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BONDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WOLF; YAWNING; ANIMAL; DOG; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DOGS; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; WOLVES; YAWNING;

EID: 84930679293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105963     Document Type: Article

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