Speaker 1: Callaroga shark media. Oh boy, a driver on a South
African road captured a video of the moment a lion
escaped from a truck high I am Johnny Mack with
five good news stories. There was a video on social media.
You see the lion riding on top of the truck
after managing to escape through the roof hatch. Oh no,
the truck pulled over as one does. The lion jumped
from the truck started walking down the road. Ants on
his event at the local animal hospital and so the
line was in transit to a game farm when it escaped.
The lion was still under the influence of the tranquilizer
it had been given prior to transport, and it wound
up just kind of chilling out under a tree. The
lion has arrived at the game farm safely. Meanwhile, scientists
may have saved the lives of future generations of elephants.
Immunologists in the United Kingdom have developed the first successful
vaccine for EEHV, which is a deadly virus responsible for
more elephant deaths than any other cause, both in captivity
and in the wild. The vaccine is a two dose vaccine.
The first dost has a harmless version of the virus.
The second boost the immune response. Professor Falco is with
the University of Surrey and says, this is a landmark
moment in our work. For the first time we've shown
an elephants that a vaccine can trigger the type of
immune response needed to protect them against EEHV. In Australia,
a man called for help but when a venomous tiger
snake was crawling across his foot when he was a
passenger in a car. Tanny said he was in his
friend's car he felt something touch his barefoot. He told
the ABC. I felt something on my feet. I looked down.
This large snake was across my feet. I yelled out
to my friend to stop the car, get the dog
and jump out and get me A hell of a fright.
Some snake rescuers were called to the scene. They were
able to remove the snake and identified it as a
five foot tiger snake. Malcolm, the snakehuner, said, we've pulled
snakes out of home and hidden behind furniture, but it's
our first car. It was a close call. There was
no hint of a snake biting. Was actually a pretty
easy catch. Good news if you're an animal. In Los Angeles,
the first plants were planted. The Wallace Annaberg Wildlife Crossing
stretches across all ten lanes of the one oh one,
giving mountain lions, coyotes, deer another wildlife a safe path
between habitats and away from those pesky cars on the
one oh one. The plants are grown locally from more
than a million seeds. Together, they'll form a one acre
greenway over the freeway. Beth is with the National Wildlife
Federation and said, this is a momentous occasion. We're standing
on top of the one oh one and you can
hear how quiet it is. But not all as well
on the California Highways, why we lay for Workshohn, Well,
you see, I was on my way to work and
then this California Highway Patrol told us of a berry
sticky situation. You see, a truck lost its load of
blueberries onto the highway. This was on southbound ninety nine
near the one eighty interchange, you know the spot. The
CHP shared photos of the berries on the road, as
well as the sticky purple mess caused by the berries
being run over by the California Department of Transportation say
they were summoned to the highway to clear the jam.
And those are your five good news stories for today.
I have a good one.