Listen to laughter

This girl is watching another person laughing silly and she ends up laughing as silly as him.

It is possible to laugh for no reason. Just start fake laughing and after some time you will start laugh for real. This person demonstrates this and if you have a hard time doing it yourself you can laugh together with him.

This guy start to fake laugh and after some time the laugh becomes real and he can not stop. It is the same if you watch, after some time you can not stop smiling.

Cute dog that makes a sound that sounds just like laughing when he is excited.

In this article by Robert Provine he talks about that there are some things that every human culture over the whole world has in common. Crying, smiling, screaming and laughing are universal communication tools that can be find all over the globe.

If you go to newly discovered tribes in the Amazon basin they laugh the same way as people do in New York, London, Stockholm or Hong Kong do!

As babies we actually start laughing long before we learn how to speak. Thus, we communicate in an inherited world-wide communication language that is known to all humans and brings humans together.

Research also shows that laughter is a message between people and we rarely laugh when we are alone. The same research also shows that laughter is contagious and that we laugh when other people are laughing. If you have listened to any of the laughters submitted on this blog you, of course, know that this is true. This is the reason we have created this blog!

Many have seen this video of the crazy kitten laughing and farting. It was common to send around the workplaces some time ago. The (fake) up-speed laughter was so funny and contagious it was almost impossible not to start giggling.

You do not need teeth to laugh and when you laugh without teeth your mouth becomes biiiiig!

Impossible not to smile looking at this one. Very cute laughing baby!

This audio clip was recorded during a laughter yoga session. It is a warm-up laughter that you do to get going and get ready to laugh for real.

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Is laughter exclusive to humans? This researcher claims that animals also laugh. Many people are against animal testing but in this case we fully support it.