Cockatoos master public water fountain drinking

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jummy back with five good news stories. Good luck to a man who is hoping to become the first person to row solo around Great Britain. That's two thousand miles. It'll take sixty days. He made the boat himself. Angus will have to battle whirlpools in the North Sea and shipping lanes. He holds five world records in ocean rowing. He thinks this will be his toughest challenge yet because of the weather. He's loading up with two months of supplies. He'll break the sixty days down into eight hours of rowing followed by four hours of rest. If everything goes according to plan, he thinks he'll actually do it in under fifty days.

0:43 Many say it's impossible. I know that is in the case, he says. He's also raising money to aid James Place, which is a charity for men's mental health. So far, he's raised over eighty five thousand dollars towards his goal of a quarter million. He explains people think that rowing around Britain is a lot easier than rowing across an ocean, but because it's coastal, it makes it significantly harder. There'll be some areas going around the islands off the west coast of Scotland, where I'll be much closer to shore, and other areas further off that require a nautical experience. You need to cope with different environments every leg there's an extremely technical and tricky part. I know the water's well, good luck, sir. Now this is interesting and I've seen this concept in science fiction. Some scientists known as ice masters are pumping water onto the surface of meadows and allowing it to freeze overnight. They do this until it's thick enough to skate on. Okay, while they were wondering could you do the same on the Arctic Ocean to preserve sea ice until winter. That created the project Arctic Reflections.

1:40 So the idea is you pump seawater on top of the ice to allow it to freeze, making more ice. Kind of cool, because we're gonna have to figure something out. More scientists these ones are studying some cockatoos. The cockatoos have figured out how to operate a water fountain, and the scientists are fascinated by this. Barber is one of the sciences. She noticed the cockatoos drinking from the fountain. She thought someone had just left the water running, but later video footage showed that the cockatoos use their claws and body weight to turn the fountain on. She till the New York Times. They're so innovative and good at problem solving that they seem to eventually figure out a solution in a weird way. Kakatoos constantly surprised me, but I'm also never that surprised. Now, the cockatoo's got to step up their game. You see. They monitored the cockatoos for over forty four days, and only forty six percent of the five hundred and twenty five attempts were successful, which means fifty four percent of the time a kakatoo cannot operate a fountain and wind up in a quote awkward body position. Step it up, cockatoos. Now. What's even more interesting is scientists are calling it a nopun water cooler effect. They're watching the cockatoos who sit in a line on the nearby chain lake fence and wait their turn.

2:53 Some cockatoos would wait for up to ten minutes to drink at the fountain. Meanwhile, there's a stream less than a one minute flight away. Very sciencey today on five good news stories even more scientists. These scientists are from Japan. They're working on seawater degradable plastic. I love it. The bacteria can work on this plastic in just two to three hours, depending on the size and thickness. This could be a major solution to reducing plastic waste in the environment. The plastic is strong and flexible, however, highly vulnerable to salt and immersion in salty ocean water. It dissolves the plastic in a short amount of time. The research team said children cannot choose the planet they will live on. It's our duty a scientists to ensure that we leave them with the best possible environment. All right, here's your latest excuse why you were late for work if you were in Washington. A truck crashed and set free fourteen million bees near the Canadian border. The highway was closed for twenty four hours. Originally the report was two hundred and fifty million bees, but it's only fourteen million bees.

3:58 The fourteen million bees warmed around the roadway. The truck was carrying more than seventy thousand pounds of honeybee hives when it turned over on wide camp road, you know, the one between Loomis Trail and West Badger. Yeah, over there. More than two dozen beekeepers had to show up. The Sheriff's office set on social media the goals to save as many of the bees as possible. At this time on scene work is done. Hive boxes from the overturned truck were recovered, restored, and returned to use by morning. Most bees should ever turn to their hives, and those are responsible for their delivery will be in charge. Beekeepers said that the insects that did not return to the hives will likely turn wild, joining existing colonies or forming new ones, and they're gonna have a great story for the other bees. And this is five good news stories.

4:42 I don't do horrible stories. The truck driver was not injured. Those a your five good news stories for today. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption or feed drops, there's a link of the show notes. Go to Caliber dot com, slash plus, or if you're on Apple Podcast, click the banner that says Uninterrupted Listening short version five bucks a month. You support the show and there's no commercials and there's no feed drops, and then we're all happy, which is the point of this show at the end of the day, isn't it. Yep, we have a great day.