June 19, 2025

Cockatoos master public water fountain drinking

Show Notes
Transcript

00:10 Epic Solo Rowing Challenge
01:19 Innovative Ice Preservation
01:48 Cockatoos' Clever Water Fountain Trick
03:03 Seawater-Degradable Plastic Breakthrough
03:39 Bee Truck Accident in Washington

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jummy back with five

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good news stories. Good luck to a man who is

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hoping to become the first person to row solo around

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Great Britain. That's two thousand miles. It'll take sixty days.

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He made the boat himself. Angus will have to battle

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whirlpools in the North Sea and shipping lanes. He holds

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five world records in ocean rowing. He thinks this will

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be his toughest challenge yet because of the weather. He's

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loading up with two months of supplies. He'll break the

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sixty days down into eight hours of rowing followed by

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four hours of rest. If everything goes according to plan,

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he thinks he'll actually do it in under fifty days.

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Many say it's impossible. I know that is in the case,

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he says. He's also raising money to aid James Place,

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which is a charity for men's mental health. So far,

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he's raised over eighty five thousand dollars towards his goal

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of a quarter million. He explains people think that rowing

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around Britain is a lot easier than rowing across an ocean,

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but because it's coastal, it makes it significantly harder. There'll

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be some areas going around the islands off the west

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coast of Scotland, where I'll be much closer to shore,

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and other areas further off that require a nautical experience.

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You need to cope with different environments every leg there's

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an extremely technical and tricky part. I know the water's well,

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good luck, sir. Now this is interesting and I've seen

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this concept in science fiction. Some scientists known as ice

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masters are pumping water onto the surface of meadows and

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allowing it to freeze overnight. They do this until it's

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thick enough to skate on. Okay, while they were wondering

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could you do the same on the Arctic Ocean to

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preserve sea ice until winter. That created the project Arctic Reflections.

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So the idea is you pump seawater on top of

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the ice to allow it to freeze, making more ice.

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Kind of cool, because we're gonna have to figure something out.

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More scientists these ones are studying some cockatoos. The cockatoos

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have figured out how to operate a water fountain, and

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the scientists are fascinated by this. Barber is one of

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the sciences. She noticed the cockatoos drinking from the fountain.

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She thought someone had just left the water running, but

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later video footage showed that the cockatoos use their claws

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and body weight to turn the fountain on. She till

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the New York Times. They're so innovative and good at

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problem solving that they seem to eventually figure out a

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solution in a weird way. Kakatoos constantly surprised me, but

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I'm also never that surprised. Now, the cockatoo's got to

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step up their game. You see. They monitored the cockatoos

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for over forty four days, and only forty six percent

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of the five hundred and twenty five attempts were successful,

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which means fifty four percent of the time a kakatoo

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cannot operate a fountain and wind up in a quote

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awkward body position. Step it up, cockatoos. Now. What's even

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more interesting is scientists are calling it a nopun water

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cooler effect. They're watching the cockatoos who sit in a

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line on the nearby chain lake fence and wait their turn.

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Some cockatoos would wait for up to ten minutes to

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drink at the fountain. Meanwhile, there's a stream less than

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a one minute flight away. Very sciencey today on five

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good news stories even more scientists. These scientists are from Japan.

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They're working on seawater degradable plastic. I love it. The

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bacteria can work on this plastic in just two to

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three hours, depending on the size and thickness. This could

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be a major solution to reducing plastic waste in the environment.

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The plastic is strong and flexible, however, highly vulnerable to

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salt and immersion in salty ocean water. It dissolves the

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plastic in a short amount of time. The research team

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said children cannot choose the planet they will live on.

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It's our duty a scientists to ensure that we leave

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them with the best possible environment. All right, here's your

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latest excuse why you were late for work if you

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were in Washington. A truck crashed and set free fourteen

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million bees near the Canadian border. The highway was closed

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for twenty four hours. Originally the report was two hundred

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and fifty million bees, but it's only fourteen million bees.

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The fourteen million bees warmed around the roadway. The truck

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was carrying more than seventy thousand pounds of honeybee hives

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when it turned over on wide camp road, you know,

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the one between Loomis Trail and West Badger. Yeah, over there.

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More than two dozen beekeepers had to show up. The

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Sheriff's office set on social media the goals to save

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as many of the bees as possible. At this time

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on scene work is done. Hive boxes from the overturned

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truck were recovered, restored, and returned to use by morning.

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Most bees should ever turn to their hives, and those

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are responsible for their delivery will be in charge. Beekeepers

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said that the insects that did not return to the

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hives will likely turn wild, joining existing colonies or forming

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new ones, and they're gonna have a great story for

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the other bees. And this is five good news stories.

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