I think this is something that everyone just adopts society's views on. I would wager most of the miners didn't care about the canaries at all. In early America

I think this is something that everyone just adopts society's views on. I would wager most of the miners didn't care about the canaries at all. In early America people shot bison from trains for the hell of it. "The railroads began to advertise excursions for “hunting by rail,” where trains encountered massive herds alongside or crossing the tracks. Hundreds of men aboard the trains climbed to the roofs and took aim, or fired from their windows, leaving countless 1,500-pound animals where they died." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-the-buffalo-no-longer-roamed-3067904/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/where-the-buffalo-no-...