I just yawned all the way through the wikipedia article on yawning. Pandiculation (a fancy term for yawning) is so infectious that it was triggered just by seeing the word repeated again and again on my laptop screen. What good is yawning? Legend has it that it could be that a possessive spirit is exiting the host it is occupying, or science suggests it could be that this is cooling my brain and helping me to become more alert. Seagulls, owls, ponies and wolves yawn. There are photos to illustrate this. How many times did you pandiculate reading this brief paragraph? And does the word pandiculate trigger as much gaping as the word yawn does? Enquiring minds want to know.