Vonnegut mentioned his “canary-bird-in-the-coal-mine theory” again in a 1973 interview with Playboy. Artists, he explained, ...

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Take for example, the prothonotary (pro-thon-uh-ter-ee) warbler. It’s a bright golden bird about 5 inches long and weighing ...

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Some parrot feathers fluoresce under UV, suggesting that the birds use a complex spectrum of light wavelengths to communicate with potential mates. PHOTOGRAPHED AT LORO PARQUE FUNDACIÓN ...

He also told me about how years ago before the Davy lamp had been invented the miners used to take a Canary bird down the mines with them to detect whether there was any poisonous gases down there.