Heart-Stopping Heroics and Extraordinary Animal Tale

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Yikes, this first one is kind of scary, but don't worry, it'll turn out okay. You know how the podcast works, right, Like, I'm not gonna lead off the podcast with a horrible plane crash where everyone dies. That's not what this show is. It's five good news stories and I am Johnny Mack and I can't remember if I said that or not. Anyway, listen to this one. It's a flight from Las Vegas to Monterey. Twin engine aircraft pilot went into cardiac arrest. A female passenger took control of the plane and received instructions from air traffic control. Yeah, like you've seen this out of the movie. The air traffic controller is telling the passenger what to do. They told her to keep the air speed around one hundred and thirty two miles per hour and she was able to land the plane successfully. Can you imagine. By the way, sidebar, the new flight simulator twenty twenty four is amazing. If you play video games and you never know could come in hand. He could be good practice there to Parks in the UK have completed a rhino swap. They've traded a captive born male ready to breed for a feisty female who's going to go live with her sister. What's the deal, John Well. The male is believed to have the necessary genetics to sire many healthy rhinos. Granville has made his way to Wooburn Safari Park, Bonnie has made her way to the West Midland Safari Park. The two parks said the swap is trying to preserve the genetic diversity of the species. Head zookeeper Lisa said, it's been bittersweet for the team. We all enjoyed watching them grow up from a cute little tank running around the safari

1:34 excited to meet the other species and the habitat to the character he is today. We'll miss him coming up for a fuss in the morning. We will look forward to hearing that he's become a father in the future and we can visit him in his new home. After Hurricane Helene, a dog that was thought lost was found in a tree. Her family in Jonesboro, Tennessee, thought that, you know, we weren't going to see the dog again. When the river receded. The Kingsport Fire Department was out surveying the record. The canine dog was helping look for casual these and started barking crazy. Captain Zach and sold the local news the bloodhound was walking and then started going crazy. I just happened to look up in the tree and I was like, oh my god, there's a dog in the tree. The rescue team found a ladder in the debris and used it to climb up, and they got the puppy down. Athena, the dog cuddled with all the rescuers. Zach says she was thanking us. Congratulations to Antonia, a blackfooted ferret, and Tonia has just given birth to two healthy kits. Antonia herself was cloned from the DNA of a ferret taken into captivity in Wyoming. Wilma.

2:33 The ferret died in the nineteen eighties, but through her DNA, one of the most endangered North American mammals as a new genetic lineage that might help it one day recover into the hordes that once roamed the North America prairie. The blackfooted Ferret program is run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It's the first time cloning was used as a conservation tool in North America. Antonio was one of three ferrets cloned in twenty twenty. The others, Noreena and Elizabeth Ann, live in a Colorado facility. All blackfooted ferrets are descended from seven individuals that creates some genetic challenges. Once thought to be extinct, they're currently listed as an endangered species. Blackfooted ferrets were recently rediscovered by a Wyoming ranchard whose dog showed up on the doorstep with a recently deceased ferret. A small colony of twenty four ferrets was located, which started the captive breeding program, in which seven reproduced. Good news in Florida, we caught your kangaroo. Yes, a kangaroo had escaped because it was fleeing from a bear.

3:33 Like I always say with these stories, the details are what makes them wonderful. So you're in Florida, you have a kangaroo, and a bear starts messing with the kangaroo. The kangaroo escapes. The sheriff said. The kangaroo was spotted hopping around Pearson. It had escaped from its owner's property due to a bear entering the enclosure. The kangaroo was spotted on Wednesday at eight in the morning. The owner and the investigator showed up at the location. The kangaroo was successfully captured and returned to its home after being bedded down in heavy cover. Officials say kangaroos are legal to keep in Florida with a permit, but the owner could face a fine failure to report escape kangaroo within twelve hours. Those are your podkn news stories for today.

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