{"id":1939,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/peeing-is-as-contagious-as-yawning\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:08","slug":"peeing-is-as-contagious-as-yawning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/peeing-is-as-contagious-as-yawning\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeing is as contagious as yawning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-22 15:41:28<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Peeing could be as contagious as yawning.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have discovered that chimps are likely to urinate when they see others doing it &#8211; and even more so when a dominant member of their pack does &#8211; suggesting that they are trying to imitate them.<BR><br \/>\nAs human and monkey DNA is similar due to the two species being closely related, researchers have suggested that the trait could be replicated in people.<BR><br \/>\nEna Onishi, a wildlife researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, said: &#8220;In humans, urinating together can be seen as a social phenomenon.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our research suggests this may have deep evolutionary roots &#8230;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Since there were no studies on contagious urination in any species, we drew parallels to contagious yawning.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Based on this, we expected that any social influences might resemble those seen in yawning.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-22 15:41:28 Peeing could be as contagious as yawning. Scientists have discovered that chimps are likely to urinate when they see others doing it &#8211; and even more so when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}