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Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Now. When we last met, I was

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telling you about the bear in New Jersey that was

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ringing doorbells. Well, now in New Mexico, we found a

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bear that likes bird seed. A resident on Silver Bell

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Road in Red River, New Mexico, had some bird seed

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out on their porch. One morning. Their camera caught a

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black bear helping himself to the whole thing, just sitting

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there eating bird seed at his own pace, completely unbothered.

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The Red River Marshall's office got wind of it and

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posted on social media, describing it as the all you

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can eat breakfast buffet on Silver Bell In. Marshall's office

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use the moment to remind residents bring in anything that

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might attract worldlife, including bird feeders, pet food, trash, anything

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with a scent. Once bears find a food source at

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a particular location, they will return. Meanwhile, and Crow's Nest pass.

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Alberta Police received a report of a theft including barbecue goods.

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They took it so seriously they responded to the scene.

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The Alberta RCMP posted about the investigation on social media,

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describing the suspect as red hair, short and wearing a

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thick coat. Officers showed up, They investigated, They found the suspect,

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who was attempting to conceal the evidence. The evidence was

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hot dogs. The suspect, a fox, yes, with red hair

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and a coat. You get it, Yes, a red fox

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sitting there with a mouthful of hot dogs, apparently made

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off with someone's barbecue supplies and hadn't gotten far enough

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that before the cops showed up. Police tell us no

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charges were filed. The hot dogs, unfortunately, were not recovered.

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In Portugal, a charity called Pangaea has spent ten years

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developing what will be Europe's first large scale elephant sanctuary.

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It's on a former cattle ranch covering roughly one thousand acres.

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First two residents are Julie, who was Portugal's last circus elephant.

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She's an African elephant in her forties who was acquired

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by the Cardinali Circus from a German zoo. Back in

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nineteen eighty eight, Portugal banned wild animals and circus, that

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band coming in a full effect in twenty twenty five.

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Julie was the last wild animal needing rehoming Victor, who's

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the director of the circus, said this has not been

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an easy decision. She's been a deeply loved member of

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our family for decades, but we believe it's the right

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decision for Julie. The second elephant is Kariba, an African

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female in her forties who is being relocated from a

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Belgian zoo where she's been living alone. Right now, across Europe,

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there are thirty six elephants living in solitary confinement in

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zoos and still about forty in circuses. Many of them,

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like Julian Cariba, were caught in the wild in the

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eighties and are reaching the end of their lives. One

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study found African females live an average of seventeen years

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in zoos, compared to fifty six years in the wild.

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Kate Moore is the managing director of Pangaea and said

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Cariba and Julie will live in an expansive natural habitat

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where they can roam, freely, bathe and socializing compatible groups.

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That autonomy's really critical. Elephants are one of the most sentient,

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intelligent animals on Earth, and they have very complex needs.

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Scientists have long predicted that a shift to electric vehicles

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would reduce air pollution. Makes sense in theory, right, But

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a new study shows yes, yeah, it's working. From twenty

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nineteen to twenty twenty three, a national team of researchers

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measured nitrogen dioxide levels across seventeen hundred zipods in California,

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that's the state with the highest rate of electric vehicle

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adoption in the country. What they found was clear and consistent.

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For every increase of two hundred electric vehicles in a

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zip code, nitrogen dioxide emissions dropped by one point one percent.

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Doesn't sound like a lot, but you multiply that across

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thousands of zip codes, millions of vehicles, it adds up.

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All right, John, Why we relate for work this time? Well,

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ye see, Boss, A semi truck broke down in Parley's Canyon,

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you know, the one outside Salt Lake City. And what

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was in the trailer was four hundred and eighty bee hives,

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and each beehive contained between forty thousand and sixty thousand

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honey bees. There were like twenty five million bees sitting

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in a park trailer in the sun. The problem was

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urgent for the bees. You see, when a truck is

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moving air circulates through the trailer and keeps the beehives

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at a safe temperature, but parked in direct sunlight with

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no breeze, the heat builds up. So while mechanics worked

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on getting the truck running again, firefighters from Mill Creek

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grabbed a hoe. They carefully missed it the outside of

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the trailer with water, keeping the temperature down and the

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bees cool, come and alive. The Unified Fire Authority reported

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no firefighters were stung. That's right, no stings. Twenty five

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million bees. Everyone went home fine, the bees were saved,

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the truck got back on the road, and Johnny Mack

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was late for work in the part of the story

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that I made up. And those are your five good

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news stories for today. Have a great day.