Fig. 3. Predicted associations between brain measures and yawn duration across taxa.

Model predictions are shown for the relationship between each neurological measure and the expected yawn duration across mammals (green slopes) and birds (pink slopes), marginalizing over species-level random effects. Y-axes are adjusted to the range of observed values across measures due to smaller sample sizes and a subsequently reduced range for the neuron count data. Posterior median values are indicated by the dark line, with posterior uncertainty represented by shaded bands of 10–90% credible intervals from darkest to lightest, respectively. Observed species-level values are shown as circles colored by taxonomic order.