Canaries, which are popular as pets due to their beautiful singing, have been used as 'coal mine canaries' to detect toxic gases in coal mines, taking advantage of the fact that their barking stops ...

A very hungry python was shamed for slithering into a Queensland bird aviary and having a feast on 11 canaries. “Yes thats right, not 1...not 2...but 11 Canaries ...

Following a deadly explosion in a Welsh coal mine in 1896, an engineer called John Haldane invented a type of bird cage that allowed canaries to accompany miners into the depths. The small songbirds ...

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