Museum of Science and Industry curator Lewis Pollard on his favourite museum object - the Canary Resuscitator I’ve been asked many times what my favourite object is in our collection. You’d think that would be quite difficult when there are...
It always makes me tear up about it when I read about this. People love stereotyping coal miners as hypermasculine, unfeeling work machines, but clearly at least some of them loved their bird companions and didn’t want them to die.
most even felt they owed their canary a life debt after they alerted them to the gas. the thing to understand about miners is that they were just people in mines. just imagine yourself in those conditions
In Rio de Janeiro favelas having pet birds Is a male thing, like a dad hobby. You see them taking the cages out to a walk and they care for their birds.
It always makes me tear up about it when I read about this. People love stereotyping coal miners as hypermasculine, unfeeling work machines, but clearly at least some of them loved their bird companions and didn’t want them to die.
most even felt they owed their canary a life debt after they alerted them to the gas. the thing to understand about miners is that they were just people in mines. just imagine yourself in those conditions
In Rio de Janeiro favelas having pet birds Is a male thing, like a dad hobby. You see them taking the cages out to a walk and they care for their birds.
That’s so sweet!
Caring about animals means keeping them out of cages.
you want to free domesticated animals? what a heartless person you are =(
It’s supply and demand. You’re paying breeders to breed them so you can put them into cages.
Don’t put this on me. Having an animal inside of a cage is heartless.