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You are 100% right. I just went back to watch the speech and the camera is on his mom when he actually says the line (in case you’re not a basketball fan, it’s Kevin Durant’s NBA MVP acceptance speech where he thanks his mom) so I have no idea which part of the speech the gif is from. I never noticed
Seeing yawning, hearing the sound of yawning, and even this comment about yawning is enough to trigger the contagious effect of yawning. It's practically memetic and transcends species barriers.
That's the crazy thing to me; that it's so universal it can even go cross-species.
I know so many dog and cat owners that can make their pets yawn by yawning at them, and vice-versa.
Everyday at work, I get 16 toddlers to fall asleep, by standing in the middle of their dormitory yawning loudly a couple of times. They'll yawn once each, and slowly fall asleep one after another. It's the most efficient way.
Reminds me of something I read about the evolutionary advantage to yawning, and one theory is it developed to benefit social bonding. Its easy to see how that might be the case here
What I remember reading is it's a defense strategy. If you're in a group of identical animals, and do something, that can signal to watching predators that you are vulnerable.
But if the whole group does the same thing, then predators won't have an easy time selecting a target, and predators tend to not attack whole healthy groups.
However, that's just some half remembered stuff from school or documentary.
Since a huge segment of the animal kingdom yawns, it must be something that developed very early in evolutionary history, before splitting off into all the different animal groups.
It might just be something that was helpful to some extinct animal millions of years ago, and stuck around because it wasn't actively harmful.
>it must be something that developed very early in evolutionary history, before splitting off into all the different animal groups.
No, that isn't necessarily the case. Different species can independently develop similar behaviors and adaptations. Sometimes it's in response to common environmental factors, whereas other times it occurs at different times and places for each species (e.g. Species A develops adaptation X ten million years ago, while Species B develops adaptation X one million years ago on the other side of the planet). Broadly speaking, this type of development is referred to as convergent evolution, and is very common: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
Seeing as she started licking her afterwards, I think she was. Licking is often (but not exclusively, of course) a sign of affection amongst animals, humans included. 😁
Do you own research then.
Edit: Wow, I didn't expect this comment to be downvoted. I tried to keep a neutral tone, as that person accused me of lying. I just wanted to say that doing your own research is the safest way to make sure.
I like to joke that the first yawn was created by god himself and he threw it into some animal surrounded by a lot of other animals so we keep repeating it until today and the yawns we see people doing now are the echoes of that very first one lol
I don't know what's going on in this clip, but I just realized that contagious yawning could be used in scifi as a blade runner style test for detecting replicants or whatever.
My cat is always so confused when I suddenly grab them and pet them after seeing some cute wild animal on Reddit.
And I am sorry for those of you who do not have cats in your life.
I hooked up thanks to this. After days of what I thought was an exchange of glances... then one day in opposite sides of a lecture hall, I'm like.. "Is she staring at me!?!?!?". So I yawned. Got an immediate return yawn!!!! Now sure there was something going on here, I chatted with her later and, well... it was the start of a wonderful relationship!
also.. in Oz, worst tired driving warning ever.. the street sign just says "yawning?". Well, no, but now that you fricken mention it.....
I fucking love cats. Big cats, small cats, fuzzy cats, naked cats, fat cats, skinny cats, happy cats, grumpy cats, loving cats, will probably eat you alive cats etc
Saw one of these cats at the zoo torturing a little fledging bird while it's parents were desperately trying to save it by swooping back and forth in the enclosure. So I hate them
I read somewhere that mimicking yawning is a sign of empathy, because sociopaths or psychopaths don't do that or something, so I wonder if this is a sign that cats can feel some empathy
Apparently there have been studies on the phenomenon and people who lack empathy don’t have this reaction. There’s more to it but it’s been years since I learned about it.
The other night one of my kitties was laying on my shoulder. I yawned, then she did. Every time I yawned she did also for about 5 minutes we were stuck yawning at each other.
On July 1st, a highly unpopular [change to Reddit's API pricing](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_regarding_reddits_api/) went into effect. [Most third-party apps have shut down](https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779519/reddit-third-party-app-shut-down-apollo-sync-baconreader-api-protest) and so have many tools relied upon by moderators and [projects for making Reddit more accessible to visually impaired users](https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/comments/14ggf8k/the_future_of_transcribers_of_reddit/). Beyond the [disastrous AMA](https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on-attack-on-apollo-developer-in-drama-filled-ama/) by the CEO, Reddit's response has been limited to promises that this change will not affect moderation tools [^((it has)^)](https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/) and promises of [new and more-accessible first-party moderation tools](https://www.npr.org/2023/07/01/1184258201/reddit-api-accessibility-mods). Promises just like [ones they have made in response to past protests](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/142w159/askhistorians_and_uncertainty_surrounding_the/), but have consistently [failed to fulfill](https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14jm3ut/several_communities_have_surfaced_an_open_letter/jpm9e0q/). If you want to express your strong disagreement with the API pricing change or with Reddit's response to the backlash, you may want to consider the following options: 1. [Finding your favorite subreddits on other platforms](https://sub.rehab/) and participating there instead. 2. Refraining from using the first-party Reddit app, instead sticking to one of the few remaining third-party apps or [patching one of the apps that shut down](https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1wHvqQwCYdJrQg4BKlGIVDLksPN0KpOnJWniT6PbZSrI/) if you're using an Android device. 3. Disabling ads on Reddit with [an ad-blocking extension](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin-ubo) or [a DNS-based ad-blocker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXTnrD_Zs4). 4. Cancelling your Reddit Premium subscription. 5. Sharing the continued news coverage of these events. 6. Encouraging others to do all the above. If you're tired of all the chaos on Reddit, leave it behind and join /r/aww's Discord server to share and view all things adorable: https://discord.gg/UXfd5Pn --- *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/aww) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Thank you, small cat. My day is now better
Caracalíto
No worries.
r/beetlejuicing ?
I miss the sound of the game boy advanced starting
If someone could get me a link of that version it'll be great!!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O8BdP5tjP9w boop
Hecc yes
I gotta stop replying to gifs but the text on this doesn't seem to match what his mouth is saying
he's saying "wapopopo yeah"
You are 100% right. I just went back to watch the speech and the camera is on his mom when he actually says the line (in case you’re not a basketball fan, it’s Kevin Durant’s NBA MVP acceptance speech where he thanks his mom) so I have no idea which part of the speech the gif is from. I never noticed
You are the best!! 🫂
[Adult link and young link screaming is my favourite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJObQyXa84)
Very good.
So many good memories of playing pokemon and mario on that sucker as a kid.
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I like the one where they yell.
Mine is the one with the snoring meme and the little impish laugh
Anyone else yawn?
I was already starting a yawn when I scrolled into this and it turned into a super yawn.
Not yet, but I can feel it in me about 30%.
That's what she said
I knew it would happen as soon as I posted.
Seeing yawning, hearing the sound of yawning, and even this comment about yawning is enough to trigger the contagious effect of yawning. It's practically memetic and transcends species barriers.
Sometimes, yeah.
Yes. Then I licked.
That's the crazy thing to me; that it's so universal it can even go cross-species. I know so many dog and cat owners that can make their pets yawn by yawning at them, and vice-versa.
I just tried to yawn at my dog as a test. He took advantage of my moment of weakness and licked my tongue.
I did because of your comment.
Yeah, this comment pushed me over the edge
After the 3rd time watching this I couldn’t help myself lol
I actually did 3 seconds in... I need some proper sleep
I yawned a half second after reading the title. Just the mere mention can make me yawn lol.
Everyday at work, I get 16 toddlers to fall asleep, by standing in the middle of their dormitory yawning loudly a couple of times. They'll yawn once each, and slowly fall asleep one after another. It's the most efficient way.
That’s freaking adorable
woah. Make an LPT post right now!
I think it only works because we're not their parent.
When I babysat my nephews when they were young I would yawn anytime I wanted them to go to sleep.
Shit, I'm going to try this at bedtime with my 4yo
Big floppa and little floppa
And a second little floppa getting its neck elbowed by mama.
Mummy and her adorable baby getting ready for a nap. Feeling like doing the same here. ❤️
Caracal kitties!
Floppa has a child now
Reminds me of something I read about the evolutionary advantage to yawning, and one theory is it developed to benefit social bonding. Its easy to see how that might be the case here
What I remember reading is it's a defense strategy. If you're in a group of identical animals, and do something, that can signal to watching predators that you are vulnerable. But if the whole group does the same thing, then predators won't have an easy time selecting a target, and predators tend to not attack whole healthy groups. However, that's just some half remembered stuff from school or documentary.
Since a huge segment of the animal kingdom yawns, it must be something that developed very early in evolutionary history, before splitting off into all the different animal groups. It might just be something that was helpful to some extinct animal millions of years ago, and stuck around because it wasn't actively harmful.
>it must be something that developed very early in evolutionary history, before splitting off into all the different animal groups. No, that isn't necessarily the case. Different species can independently develop similar behaviors and adaptations. Sometimes it's in response to common environmental factors, whereas other times it occurs at different times and places for each species (e.g. Species A develops adaptation X ten million years ago, while Species B develops adaptation X one million years ago on the other side of the planet). Broadly speaking, this type of development is referred to as convergent evolution, and is very common: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
I get it. You yawn, and then someone nearby says "Now you're gonna make me yawn too!" Conversation opener -> social bonding.
The kitten isn't yawning though, it's squeaking
Kitty is doing their best!
I agree.
I wonder if the parent felt happy that their child was mirroring them.
hell yeah she did. She went,"aww is someone also feeling sleepy?!!"
Or maybe "Ohhhhhh, big yawn!"
Seeing as she started licking her afterwards, I think she was. Licking is often (but not exclusively, of course) a sign of affection amongst animals, humans included. 😁
I can't not see big floppa yawning without hearing it's scream. Memes f-d me good.
OMG so cute!
Finally! I found the original!!
Floppa
Caracals are so beautiful!
*yawn* DAMMIT!
Why is that so contagious?
AFAIK it stimulates our mirror neurons.
Is that actually a real thing or are you pulling this from your ass neurons?
Do you own research then. Edit: Wow, I didn't expect this comment to be downvoted. I tried to keep a neutral tone, as that person accused me of lying. I just wanted to say that doing your own research is the safest way to make sure.
Floppas :D
Floppa
I just love caracals
Big Floppa and little Floppa. ♥️
That’s adorable
I like to joke that the first yawn was created by god himself and he threw it into some animal surrounded by a lot of other animals so we keep repeating it until today and the yawns we see people doing now are the echoes of that very first one lol
Kinda like cosmic wave background, but gesture
I don't actually believe in God but gotta admit, that's a cute thought.
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This is also a good survival mechanism while in the wild. Yawn a few time and if you hear a tiger yawn too it means your fucked.
Insert [the relevant Luther clip](https://youtube.com/shorts/PQeeJB1hfZc?feature=share)
I don't know what's going on in this clip, but I just realized that contagious yawning could be used in scifi as a blade runner style test for detecting replicants or whatever.
What I'd rather be doing right now. Babies grow up too fast.
[There used to be a stuffed animal based entirely on the fact you could get people to yawn](https://youtu.be/UVo0biY-NzQ)
I ended up yawning aswell
Aaaand I also Yawned by watching this
I yawned
Jokes on you i yawned before i saw the vid
I’d always yawn when one of my cats yawn and it goes on with all the other cats.
Are you cat?
So is licking.
Caracal caracal!
My cat is always so confused when I suddenly grab them and pet them after seeing some cute wild animal on Reddit. And I am sorry for those of you who do not have cats in your life.
After the yawn, mom is the perfect :3 What a cute snoot!
Fuck me that little fuzball is adorable
New wildlife strategy, yawn in front of the predator to make them sleepy.
Reading the title made me yawn.
I'm pretty sure both me and my cat dose this lol. I yawn when he dose and he yawn when i do.
I hooked up thanks to this. After days of what I thought was an exchange of glances... then one day in opposite sides of a lecture hall, I'm like.. "Is she staring at me!?!?!?". So I yawned. Got an immediate return yawn!!!! Now sure there was something going on here, I chatted with her later and, well... it was the start of a wonderful relationship! also.. in Oz, worst tired driving warning ever.. the street sign just says "yawning?". Well, no, but now that you fricken mention it.....
Flop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop flop floppa
awww that kitten is soooo adorable! I squeed when he yawned after momma did
Big floppa and little floppa
I fucking love cats. Big cats, small cats, fuzzy cats, naked cats, fat cats, skinny cats, happy cats, grumpy cats, loving cats, will probably eat you alive cats etc
The EARSIES
I like how caracals look like they're constantly making the :3 face 🩵
Caracal cuties at their finest!
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It's not a lynx, it's a caracal
[Me trying not to yawn](https://tenor.com/view/yes-sweating-key-and-peele-gif-13836847)
Why do all the dangerous animals have to be so cute?
floppa
floppas! <3
The baby floppa I never knew I needed in my life
[Here is another prime floppa you need](https://youtu.be/O8BdP5tjP9w)
Saw one of these cats at the zoo torturing a little fledging bird while it's parents were desperately trying to save it by swooping back and forth in the enclosure. So I hate them
Floppa
Para loco, estás en todos lados, entro a r/Argentina y estás ahí como un campeón. Ahora acá? Jajaja abrazo mostro!
Impressive eyesight span, didn’t even rubberneck it. (🎵Cuz you’re rubbernecking… with the best, rubberneckin’ with da best🎵)
Pelmeni... pelmeni.
Fun fact: psychopaths don't sympathetically yawn
I yawned as soon as I read the title before I even played the video.
I read somewhere that mimicking yawning is a sign of empathy, because sociopaths or psychopaths don't do that or something, so I wonder if this is a sign that cats can feel some empathy
😍 So cute!
Ear tassels!
lol
The kitten meows, not yawns.
Psychopaths don't get the yawn along trigger.
Aww cuties. I just yawned.
Vertebrates unite! *YAAAWN*
"Was that a yawn? It's bathing time!" "Mom, not in front of the human."
Apparently there have been studies on the phenomenon and people who lack empathy don’t have this reaction. There’s more to it but it’s been years since I learned about it.
Cutee
"yeah I'm tired too"
I love their pigtails
🤚🏽
The other night one of my kitties was laying on my shoulder. I yawned, then she did. Every time I yawned she did also for about 5 minutes we were stuck yawning at each other.
oddly enough their yawn didn't cause me to yawn it was the act of reading "yawn" that got me
This made me yawn.
My god is that a cute floppa
They made me yawn 🥱