Oct. 16, 2025

Butterfly's Broken Wing Repaired PLUS The World's Tallest Donkey

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Johnny Mac presents five uplifting news stories. A butterfly with a broken wing undergoes a successful emergency wing transplant at Sweet Briar Nature Center. An antique dealer in Scotland finds a stained glass window potentially tied to King Robert from the 1300s. A man discovers a 190-million-year-old fossil inside a rock on a beach. A jaguar is rescued from a Brazilian river after being shot and is now recovering. Lastly, Dynamic Derek, the world's tallest donkey, and Bamboo, with the longest ears, reside at Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Did you see this emergency butterfly wing transplant?

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It was watched by millions on social media. That's right.

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A nature center in New York took care of a

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butterfly with a broken wing. A woman in Deer Park,

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New York, was walking along and saw this butterfly with

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a broken wing. She brought it to the Sweetbriar Nature

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Center in Smithtown. There she met Jeanine, who was the

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director of wildlife Rehab. Jeanine doesn't have many monarch butterflies

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in the vivarium and wondered maybe she could find a

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dead one and transplant its wing onto the injured one.

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Sure enough, there was a dead butterfly. Now I love

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going to butterfly houses. They apparently don't live long. They

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live like three weeks, so it's not like crazy sad

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if you were to find a dead butterfly. That's just

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how long they live. Janine told CBS it was so

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intricate because this butterfly could fall apart if I pressed

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too hard. We used contact. We had cornstarchs, a little

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piece of wire that we could hold the butterfly down

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with The One easy part was that butterflies have no

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nerve endings in their upper wings. There are no blood

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vessels either, and it was a success. That is amazing. Meanwhile,

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an antique dealer who bought a stained glass window in

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a Scottish thrist shop for twenty five dollars says it

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belonged to King Robert I from the thirteen hundreds. Yeah,

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Richard was out there in Scotland. We saw the glass

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was for sale. He said it was discovered in an

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old house in the area which had been abandoned for years.

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They removed decades of Greece and they found the stained

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glass that depicts what is believed to be a night

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with a Latin inscription around the edges, which roughly translates

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to Robert Bruce, King of the Scots. Richard said, I

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cleaned it off with a brush that I could see it,

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said Robert Rex Scotorum. That's when I thought this is

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going to be interesting. It could be priceless if it's

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proven to be of that period. It's a massive historical

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find for Scotland. He's hoping it can go into a museum. Meanwhile,

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Scott was walking down the beach. He picked up what

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looked like a rock. Then he realized, hey, this could

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be a fossil. These are what are called cannonball nodules

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because they look like canniball. Sometimes they have something inside,

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sometimes they don't. More often they don't. He split it

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open with a hammer. What was inside? He said, Oh,

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no way, look at that. That's insane, all right. What

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was it inside was a perfectly formed fossil, a one

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hundred and ninety million year old fossil called elegantserras. It

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swam in the ocean back when the dinosaurs were around.

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He says, anybody can go out and do it and

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get lucky, but most will find obvious looking ones. It's

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very difficult to find things when there are no obvious

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signs on the outside. And that's what I seem to

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excel at X ray vision. Okay, good news for a jaguar.

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It was seen struggling to swim in a Brazilian river,

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was rescued by authorities and taken to a clinic where

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it was treated for gunshot wounds. Military police and wildlife

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experts created an improvised flotation device. The vets found the

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jaguar had been shot and had bullet fragments under its skin.

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The jaguar underwent surgery and is now recovering and will

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be returned to the wild. I've got a world record

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for you. I've gotten bored with the people that are,

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you know, every week, making some ridiculous things. I'm trying

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to get away from that and just do world records

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that are more interesting, such as Dynamic Derek. Congratulations to

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Dynamic Derek, the tallest living donkey in the world, five

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feet five inches from hoof to withers now. Dynamic Derek

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lives with Bamboo, the donkey who has the longest ears

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on a living donkey. Those ears are one foot one inch.

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They live at the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary. The owner of

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the sanctuary, Tracy Toild, the New York Post. No one

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could believe he's a donkey. They all think he's a

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mule because he's so big. I saw a picture of

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this donkey. It does look like a mule. And those

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are your five good news stories for today. You have

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an awesome day, You tall donkey