Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
Speaker 1: good news stories. Recently, there was snow in San Diego,
Speaker 1: specifically at the San Diego Zoo. They treated their grizzly bears,
Speaker 1: Scout and Montana, to a snow day, using industrial snowblowers
Speaker 1: to replicate late spring weather that they would experience in
Speaker 1: the wild. Scout and Montana are brothers. They were rescued
Speaker 1: as cubs from an area outside Yellowstone National Park about
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. The zoo said they and their mother
Speaker 1: repeatedly found unsecured food in human occupied areas, creating safety
Speaker 1: risks for both bears and local communities. Their story serves
Speaker 1: as an important reminder that properly storing food and securing
Speaker 1: trash and bear country helps protect both people and wildlife.
Speaker 1: I hope they enjoyed the snow. Meanwhile, in Scotland, a
Speaker 1: family that has owned one of the world's great wildlife
Speaker 1: treasures for more than three centuries has decided the birds
Speaker 1: can have it. The Dalrypple family has sold Bass Rock,
Speaker 1: which is a small island in the Firth of Fourth
Speaker 1: that is home to around one hundred thousand gannetts and
Speaker 1: ten thousand puffins. They've sold it to conservationists who will
Speaker 1: protect the site for generations to come. Bass Rock rises
Speaker 1: dramatically from the seeds, covered in nesting seabirds, and dotted
Speaker 1: with the remains of a medieval castle, a lighthouse, and
Speaker 1: a notorious prison once known as Scotland's Alcatraz. Sir David
Speaker 1: Attenborough described it as one of the twelve Wildlife Wonders
Speaker 1: of the World. The family had owned it for three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty years. Sir Hugh Dalrymple said, I made
Speaker 1: the decision to do this because of the risk the
Speaker 1: birds are now facing. I thought an organization like the
Speaker 1: RSPB would be better equipped to protect the islands and
Speaker 1: their wildlife than a private individual. He said. There was
Speaker 1: some emotional regret, but he's pleased that the islands now
Speaker 1: have dedicated conservation guardians. Scientists continue to get it done.
Speaker 1: There's some scientists in Switzerland that have restored normal movement
Speaker 1: in mice whose spinal cords had been completely severed. They
Speaker 1: did it using microscopic robots, stem cells, and magnets. Researchers
Speaker 1: at et Zurich say the breakthrough could eventually transform the
Speaker 1: treatment of spinal cord injuries. When the spinal cord is damaged,
Speaker 1: nerve cells rarely grow back on their own. Scar tissue
Speaker 1: often blocks new connections, leaving patients with permanent paralysis or
Speaker 1: loss of movement. So the Swiss team decided to try
Speaker 1: something different. They started with stem cells that can develop
Speaker 1: into nerve cells. They combine those cells with specifically diagnosed
Speaker 1: nanoparticles that respond to magnetic fields. The result is something
Speaker 1: they call an npc bot. Think of it as a
Speaker 1: tiny repair crew. The nanoparticles can be guided to an
Speaker 1: injury site and then stimulated magnetically, creating electrical signals that
Speaker 1: encourage stem cells to grow and reconnect damaged nerves. The
Speaker 1: first team tried it in zebrafish. The results were encouraging.
Speaker 1: Then they tried it in mice. Twenty eight days later,
Speaker 1: the nerve cells on either side of the jury had reconnected.
Speaker 1: The mice gradually regained increasingly normal movement. In Canada, a
Speaker 1: woman who rescued an injured crow has been adopted by
Speaker 1: the local crow community and they are paying her back
Speaker 1: with yes Yeah. Leah spotted a young crow trapped in
Speaker 1: a roof gutter. She was looking around for assistance noticed
Speaker 1: something nearby a fire truck. She approached the firefighters and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you look like you want to save a crow today.
Speaker 1: Great line. The firefighters agreed. They brought over a ladder,
Speaker 1: freed the trap bird, and then left Leah with the
Speaker 1: responsibility of figuring it out from there. She accepted, but
Speaker 1: she says, the young crow grabbed onto her finger before
Speaker 1: being taken for treatment. He latched on on my finger
Speaker 1: and held on. That was life changing. Not too long after,
Speaker 1: Leah was walking her dog and noticed a crow fly
Speaker 1: down and drop something at her feet. It was a
Speaker 1: small bundle of feathers, a gift. Since then, she's received
Speaker 1: more presents from local crows. Now, whenever she walks through
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, the birds gather around her, circling overhead and
Speaker 1: falling along, as if she's their favorite celebrity. The crow
Speaker 1: she rescued still visits her. He's easy to identify because
Speaker 1: he has a leg band that was attached when he
Speaker 1: was released back into the wild. And congrats to an
Speaker 1: eleven year old boy in England, he discovered a two
Speaker 1: million year old tooth from an ancient elephant. Charlie was
Speaker 1: walking on the beach and had just been talking about
Speaker 1: how much he loves elephants. He looked down and saw
Speaker 1: an oddly shaped rock, but it didn't feel like a rock.
Speaker 1: Charlie's mother, Eleanor, said it must have been quite distinctive
Speaker 1: because it caught both our eyes. So we picked it up.
Speaker 1: We could tell something different at a different feel to it.
Speaker 1: They contacted experts who said that Charlie had found the
Speaker 1: upper left molar of an extinct elephant relative called Anachus
Speaker 1: or venisis. I probably got that wrong, regardless that species
Speaker 1: roomed parts of Europe roughly eight and a half million
Speaker 1: years ago. I just believed that type of animal weighed
Speaker 1: as much as six tons and was eight feet tall.
Speaker 1: It was also known for long, straight tusks. The tooth
Speaker 1: itself four inches across. Charlie now can humble Braggy is
Speaker 1: the coolest show. Until item in school we said, I've
Speaker 1: found a two million year old elephant tooth on the beach.
Speaker 1: Those are your five good news stories for today. Have
Speaker 1: a great day.