For human beings, yawning is an exaggerated jaw movement that can be caused by sleepiness, stress, boredom, etc. Yawning is also widespread in many animals like these pictures below, but what caused the contagious yawning, a physiological phenomenon only occurring in humans and chimpanzees, nobody really knows.
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