Mark Bowden
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If you're a dog, if you're a dog owner, you'll notice that your dog will do a big yawn when they're changing from one mood to another mood.
It's one of the signals to say, OK, the dog's settling down.
They've they've stopped their run around.
They're yawning now.
They're going to calm right, right down.
We do the same.
Dogs actually picked it up.
from us.
We evolved together about 40,000 years ago.
Yeah.
As we started to tame wolves, we picked up on yawning together.
And they got it from us as well.
Or they got it from us.
Yeah.
Also, they haven't quite, I mean, the heads are touching and the head is not a particularly vulnerable place.
Ultimately, you know, you can tap on your head and you're going to be fine, OK?
You can knock heads and everybody's going to be OK.
The cheeks together would be way more intimate, way more intimate.
So that part of that triangle is around the cheeks not being...
And so the body not closing completely on that.