Cher's Crusade for Elephants PLUS a man dresses like a collie

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news. If you're an elephant, you know who has your back? Share, Yeah, I didn't know about this. In late November twenty twenty, Share went from La to Pakistan to ensure the safe relocation of Cavan, who's an Asian elephant who is languishing in the Islamabad Zoo. Share has a charity fund called Free the Wild. Cavan wound up moved to a sanctuary in Cambodia, but Shares worried about Billy, who is a thirty eight year old elephant who has spent nearly his entire life at the La Zoo. There are calls for Billy to be released to a sanctuary. Sharer said, I think about him all the time. He's in constant pain from the cement like ground he walks on. He's been there for a million years. He deserves to spend his last years in a sanctuary. But zoos keep elephants because they're the big draw.

0:51 They're bringing the big bucks. In Ukraine, we transferred six lions, a bear, a panther and a tiger. We went in before the war and did everything to get them out, but we left the air, so we had to sneak back in with a big pickup truck and get him out during the war Wow. The London Zoo has conducted its annual weigh in. They do that to keep records on the health and other measurements about the animal's well being. ANGELA Ryan is the London Zoo's head of Zoological Operations and said having this data helps to ensure that every animal we care for is healthy, eating well and growing at the rate they should. The zoo's heaviest animal is Maggie, who's a giraffe. Maggie weighs around sixteen hundred pounds. The zoo's smallest animal is a leaf cutter ant five milligrams gaise. You're curious the zoo keepers don't measure each ant individually. They use estimates based on the weight of an entire colony. Weighing animals can be challenging. Zookeepers use different ways to get the two step, hop, skip or jump onto the scale and stand up straight for measurements. For example, they tricked the humbold penguin chicks and walking over scales one by one by having them line up for their morning feed.

1:52 A new series Animals in Therapy is using comedy and connections to advocate for animal conservation. A pressure from on the Edge says, unlike many campaigns which feed eco anxiety, the new series uses comedy and relativity to deliver a pernit in message that we're all closely aligned a certain endangered species. There's even some famous people in this. You know Rhese Darby from Flight of the Concords. He's in a video with a cacapo. Meanwhile, Murray Bartlett, you know him from White Lotus in the Last of Us. He's in a video two otters, and the text asks to humans also feel happiness. You can find both season one and season two of Animals in Therapy on the Edge YouTube channel.

2:36 Two pen pals have met in person sixty eight years after they began writing letters back and forth. They're both eighty years old, Patsy Gregory and Carol Ann Krause. They started swapping letters in nineteen fifty five when they became Girl Scouts on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. They swapped more than eight hundred letters, always remembering each other's birthday's, wedding, anniversaries, and Christmas, but they never met in person until recently. Patsy told her daughter Steph that she always wanted to visit Caroline, who lives in South Carolina, so her family surprised were the tickets to the USA on her birthday. Patsy said, it was quite emotional, was lovely. I didn't feel any nerves. I was excited. It was great to be able to meet her at last. It was just as though I had seen her last week, because we'd known each other for so long. We would write about what had happened in the day at school, or anything that was going on, where were going, who we went out with, or whatever. We were just sharing news as he would with a friend next door. The bear chatted for hours about their friendship and took in the local sites. Well good news for the men who dreamed of becoming a college He purchased a human sized dog costume for about fourteen fifteen thousand dollars. He got his wish. He went on YouTube. He showed off his first in costume interview with Spanish international news agency EFE and said, since I was a child, I wanted to change. When I'm dressed in the suit, I feel so happy because my dreams came true. I received all kinds of messages. Among the positive messages, some tell me they want to do what I've done. This has allowed me to see that there are other people like me. Dresses up in costume a few times a months and sometimes worries about his friend's reactions. He had previously told the Mirror, I really tell my friends because I'm afraid they'll think I'm weird. My family

4:10 and friends seem very surprised to learn that I became an animal. If you want such a costume, a Japanese agency called Zeppit can make one for you. It Apparently it took zepp At forty days to make Toco's costume. A Zeppet employee said they found a way to create the skeleton structure of a dog and spent a lot of time studying it. In addition, we collect photographs taken from various angles so that the beautiful coat of the colleague can be reproduced and devised so that the coat will flow naturally. What's your five good news stories for today? Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your show. As you have a great day,