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Rossman ZT, Hart BL, Greco BJ, et al. When Yawning Occurs in Elephants. Front Vet Sci. 2017;4:22doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00022.
Rossman, Z. T., Hart, B. L., Greco, B. J., Young, D., Padfield, C., Weidner, L., Gates, J., & Hart, L. A. (2017). When Yawning Occurs in Elephants. Frontiers in veterinary science, 422. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2017.00022
Rossman, Zoë T, et al. "When Yawning Occurs in Elephants." Frontiers in veterinary science vol. 4 (2017): 22. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2017.00022
Rossman ZT, Hart BL, Greco BJ, Young D, Padfield C, Weidner L, Gates J, Hart LA. When Yawning Occurs in Elephants. Front Vet Sci. 2017 Feb 28;4:22. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00022. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28293560; PMCID: PMC5328991.
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Front Vet Sci. 2017 Feb 28;4:22. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00022. eCollection 2017.

When Yawning Occurs in Elephants.

Frontiers in veterinary science

Zoë T Rossman, Benjamin L Hart, Brian J Greco, Debbie Young, Clare Padfield, Lisa Weidner, Jennifer Gates, Lynette A Hart

Affiliations

  1. Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.
  2. Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.
  3. Department of Animal Science, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.
  4. African Elephant Research Unit, Knysna Elephant Park , Western Cape , South Africa.
  5. Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.

PMID: 28293560 PMCID: PMC5328991 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00022

Abstract

Yawning is a widely recognized behavior in mammalian species. One would expect that elephants yawn, although to our knowledge, no one has reported observations of yawning in any species of elephant. After confirming a behavioral pattern matching the criteria of yawning in two Asian elephants (

Keywords: Elephas maximus; Loxodonta africana; contagious yawning; elephant sleeping; elephants; yawning

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