Talk:Sentinel species

Help wanted
What about using fish to test water quality in ancient Roman aqueducts?

Canary in the Coal Mine
The Canary in the Cole Mine is a topic addressed by Kurt Vonnegut in his novels, please address this in the section for Literary topics or cultural references. Thank you.24.202.0.73 (talk) 23:28, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see how that fits into the article, but if you have a proposal you can add it here, or add it to the article. Shadowjams (talk) 08:07, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Added. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Replacing Sentinels
With sentinels, a program may required transferring dirty bedding to a cage containing sentinel animals, and periodically, one sentinel animal would be sent to CRL for euthanasia and pathogen screening. This system periodically sacrifices one or more 'sentinel' animals to screen for pathogens. An alternative sentinel program might collect feces from cages containing experimental animals, then submit them for PCR testing of pathogens. This protocol no longer needs sentinel animals and decreases animal use generally and also decreases the amount of labor and caging costs. MaynardClark (talk) 17:19, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Sentials have been used to detect bad air longer then stated in the article.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1512612/?page=2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.196.141 (talk) 08:37, 16 December 2021 (UTC)