Bear Buffet, Hot Dog Fox, and Five Good News Stories

0:03 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.

0:55 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.

1:36 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.

2:37 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.

3:20 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.