A bear took 400 selfies

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. A bear in Boulder, Colorado took some selfies four hundred times. Boulders Open Space and Mountain Parks Department operates nine motion activated wildlife cameras across it's forty six thousand acres of land. An inquisitive bear triggered one of the cameras, and of five hundred and eighty photos captured, four hundred were bear selfies. A spokesperson said, we're fortunate to live in an area with rich diversity wildlife, and these cameras help us learn what animals are really out there and what they're up to over the course of a day, week, or even years. And obviously they're on Instagram. A good news for Ronald the dog. Ronald had been returned to the shelter fourteen times, but he has found his forever home.

0:52 Ronald's a sixty four pound mixed breed poppy, but apparently people kept adopting them and then brought them back for one reason or another. Kirsten Davis is a nurse from Raeford, North Carolina. She was put on a wait list for Ronald, popular dog returned fourteen times and there's still a wait list. After a five day trial adoption, Davis knew Ronald was meant to be part of her family. She officially adopted him in January. That's awesome. A group of students has built a robotic hand for their fifteen year old classmate, who said the device changed his life. This is in Tennessee. Classmates of Sergio built him a robotic hand. A teacher who had learned that Sergio's hand was not fully formed told him his students could help. Sergio said when he first got to the high school, he felt like hiding his arm in a sleeve.

1:36 However, Jeff Wilkins, a teacher at the school, found out about Sergio's hand and assigned his students the task of building him a robotic one. The three students who took up the challenge spent a month designing the prosthetic using online software and three D printing techniques. One of the students told the local CBS affiliate, you're supposed to be engineering, coming up with new ideas, solving issues, and just making things better than how they used to be. To test it out, Sergio caught a ball this right hand for the first time, and everybody freaked out. He said, they changed my life. You know good news if you were a butterfly in Oregon. The Fenders Blue butterfly has made such a good recovery that its status has been changed from endangered to just threatened. The butterfly is only found in Williamette Valley in Oregon. It was believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in nineteen eighty nine.

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