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Yellow Canary Fast Fact – <\/strong>I know we think of the Yellow Canary as a cartoon character that provided us with hours of entertainment but they also saved lives.\u00a0 The Yellow Canary was famous for being used in coal mines which provided a warning for the miners.\u00a0 If the little bird died then it was time to move out.\u00a0 See, as the miners went deeper into the ground they ran into all kinds of ventilation problems.\u00a0 Obviously without enough oxygen in the air the miners wouldn’t last too long.\u00a0 The Yellow Canary has a very sensitive metabolism and is able to detect traces of methane and carbon monoxide long before humans would have known about it.\u00a0 Unfortunately these birds sacrificed their lives to warn the miners but it was an effective, albeit low tech system for the coal miners.<\/p>\nThat does it for the first cartoon animal of the week.\u00a0 Check back tomorrow to see if your favourite cartoon animal is featured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You are all in for an exciting and fun week of Wild Facts.\u00a0 I guarantee this week is going to bring you back to your childhood.\u00a0 Every animal we talk about this week will be based off of a cartoon character.\u00a0 I figured this is fitting since Facebook is covered with cartoon characters this weekend in an effort to raise awareness for child abuse.\u00a0 So make sure you stop by every day to see if we feature your favourite childhood cartoon character. We are going to start with the Yellow Canary which is of course based on one of my <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024],"tags":[348,1404,1405,1403,4025,1401,1402,1399,1400],"yoast_head":"\n
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