While the reason behind the human yawn ... Their yawns are often accompanied by stretching. Mostly, cats yawn as a form of communication and an attempt to send you a message.

A friend and I discussed this some 40 years ago, because he contended that all humans, cats and dogs yawn and stretch. His argument fell apart because I don’t do this. I wake, then look at the ...

Babies, dogs, cats, birds, mice ... recent scholarship may have uncovered the truth as to why we yawn. When a person yawns, the stretching of powerful jaw muscles increases blood flow in the ...

For example, while most species of birds open their beaks in a fair impression of a mammalian yawn, no one has yet proven whether or not this "jaw stretching ... people yawn. Cats also demonstrate ...

Yawning can increase blood flow to the brain via jaw stretching ... 4.8 seconds, while dogs’ average yawn took 2.4 seconds. STAT would never weigh in on the eternal dogs vs. cats argument ...

Some of the potential benefits of regular stretching include: In cartoons, it seems like characters are often depicted yawning and stretching ... for 3 to 5 minutes while breathing deeply.

Johnson added that another sign of stress that owners should watch out for is when a dog pants while yawning. If your normally social cat has begun hiding beneath furniture or blankets ...