Chimps can "catch" yawn from yawning toons.Byline: ANI London, Sept 9 (ANI): Yawning is so contagious that it can provoke teeth-baring yawns in chimpanzees, a new research has found. "Contagious yawning" is well known among humans, and previous research has shown that chimps are not immune to its suggestive influence either. However, the new research by scientists from Emory University Emory University (ĕm`ərē), near Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; United Methodist; chartered as Emory College 1836, opened 1837 at Oxford. It became Emory Univ. in 1915 and in 1919 moved to Atlanta. in Atlanta, US, is the first to show that computer animations of yawning chimps provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, reports The BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . The study has been described in the Royal Society journal, Proceedings B. Matthew Campbell
Matthew Campbell (born January 30, 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL and currently a media personality. , a researcher from Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University, is one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health. and lead author of the study, said: "We're interested in using animation for presenting stimuli to animals, because we can control all the features of what we show them." Campbell said that there was evidence that chimps "process animated faces the same way they process photographs of faces". He said: "It's not a real chimpanzee chimpanzee, an ape, genus Pan, of the equatorial forests of central and W Africa. The common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, lives N of the Congo River. Full-grown animals of this species are up to 5 ft (1. , but it kind of looks like a chimpanzee, and they're responding to that." Campbell and his team, including Devyn Carter who designed the animations, showed the animals the yawning sequences. "We also had the animations doing other movements with their mouths that the chimps often do. The chimps showed a lot more yawning during the yawn video than when the control videos were playing," he said. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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