Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. Now. When we last met, I was
telling you about the bear in New Jersey that was
ringing doorbells. Well, now in New Mexico, we found a
bear that likes bird seed. A resident on Silver Bell
Road in Red River, New Mexico, had some bird seed
out on their porch. One morning. Their camera caught a
black bear helping himself to the whole thing, just sitting
there eating bird seed at his own pace, completely unbothered.
The Red River Marshall's office got wind of it and
posted on social media, describing it as the all you
can eat breakfast buffet on Silver Bell In. Marshall's office
use the moment to remind residents bring in anything that
might attract worldlife, including bird feeders, pet food, trash, anything
with a scent. Once bears find a food source at
a particular location, they will return. Meanwhile, and Crow's Nest pass.
Alberta Police received a report of a theft including barbecue goods.
They took it so seriously they responded to the scene.
The Alberta RCMP posted about the investigation on social media,
describing the suspect as red hair, short and wearing a
thick coat. Officers showed up, They investigated, They found the suspect,
who was attempting to conceal the evidence. The evidence was
hot dogs. The suspect, a fox, yes, with red hair
and a coat. You get it, Yes, a red fox
sitting there with a mouthful of hot dogs, apparently made
off with someone's barbecue supplies and hadn't gotten far enough
that before the cops showed up. Police tell us no
charges were filed. The hot dogs, unfortunately, were not recovered.
In Portugal, a charity called Pangaea has spent ten years
developing what will be Europe's first large scale elephant sanctuary.
It's on a former cattle ranch covering roughly one thousand acres.
First two residents are Julie, who was Portugal's last circus elephant.
She's an African elephant in her forties who was acquired
by the Cardinali Circus from a German zoo. Back in
nineteen eighty eight, Portugal banned wild animals and circus, that
band coming in a full effect in twenty twenty five.
Julie was the last wild animal needing rehoming Victor, who's
the director of the circus, said this has not been
an easy decision. She's been a deeply loved member of
our family for decades, but we believe it's the right
decision for Julie. The second elephant is Kariba, an African
female in her forties who is being relocated from a
Belgian zoo where she's been living alone. Right now, across Europe,
there are thirty six elephants living in solitary confinement in
zoos and still about forty in circuses. Many of them,
like Julian Cariba, were caught in the wild in the
eighties and are reaching the end of their lives. One
study found African females live an average of seventeen years
in zoos, compared to fifty six years in the wild.
Kate Moore is the managing director of Pangaea and said
Cariba and Julie will live in an expansive natural habitat
where they can roam, freely, bathe and socializing compatible groups.
That autonomy's really critical. Elephants are one of the most sentient,
intelligent animals on Earth, and they have very complex needs.
Scientists have long predicted that a shift to electric vehicles
would reduce air pollution. Makes sense in theory, right, But
a new study shows yes, yeah, it's working. From twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty three, a national team of researchers
measured nitrogen dioxide levels across seventeen hundred zipods in California,
that's the state with the highest rate of electric vehicle
adoption in the country. What they found was clear and consistent.
For every increase of two hundred electric vehicles in a
zip code, nitrogen dioxide emissions dropped by one point one percent.
Doesn't sound like a lot, but you multiply that across
thousands of zip codes, millions of vehicles, it adds up.
All right, John, Why we relate for work this time? Well,
ye see, Boss, A semi truck broke down in Parley's Canyon,
you know, the one outside Salt Lake City. And what
was in the trailer was four hundred and eighty bee hives,
and each beehive contained between forty thousand and sixty thousand
honey bees. There were like twenty five million bees sitting
in a park trailer in the sun. The problem was
urgent for the bees. You see, when a truck is
moving air circulates through the trailer and keeps the beehives
at a safe temperature, but parked in direct sunlight with
no breeze, the heat builds up. So while mechanics worked
on getting the truck running again, firefighters from Mill Creek
grabbed a hoe. They carefully missed it the outside of
the trailer with water, keeping the temperature down and the
bees cool, come and alive. The Unified Fire Authority reported
no firefighters were stung. That's right, no stings. Twenty five
million bees. Everyone went home fine, the bees were saved,
the truck got back on the road, and Johnny Mack
was late for work in the part of the story
that I made up. And those are your five good
news stories for today. Have a great day.