Dec. 16, 2024

Heart-Stopping Heroics and Extraordinary Animal Tale

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Johnny Mac presents five uplifting stories, starting with a female passenger landing a plane after the pilot suffered cardiac arrest. Other stories include a successful rhino swap between UK safari parks, the miraculous rescue of a dog stranded in a tree after Hurricane Helene, the birth of cloned black-footed ferret kits contributing to species conservation, and the adventurous capture of a kangaroo on the loose in Florida.

00:25 Heroic Plane Landing
00:59 Rhino Swap for Genetic Diversity
01:43 Dog Rescued from Tree After Hurricane
02:19 Cloning Success for Black-Footed Ferrets
03:25 Escaped Kangaroo in Florida

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Callaroga Shark Media. Yikes, this first one is kind of scary,

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but don't worry, it'll turn out okay. You know how

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the podcast works, right, Like, I'm not gonna lead off

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the podcast with a horrible plane crash where everyone dies.

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That's not what this show is. It's five good news

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stories and I am Johnny Mack and I can't remember

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if I said that or not. Anyway, listen to this one.

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It's a flight from Las Vegas to Monterey. Twin engine

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aircraft pilot went into cardiac arrest. A female passenger took

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control of the plane and received instructions from air traffic control. Yeah,

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like you've seen this out of the movie. The air

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traffic controller is telling the passenger what to do. They

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told her to keep the air speed around one hundred

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and thirty two miles per hour and she was able

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to land the plane successfully. Can you imagine. By the way, sidebar,

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the new flight simulator twenty twenty four is amazing. If

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you play video games and you never know could come

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in hand. He could be good practice there to Parks

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in the UK have completed a rhino swap. They've traded

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a captive born male ready to breed for a feisty

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female who's going to go live with her sister. What's

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the deal, John Well. The male is believed to have

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the necessary genetics to sire many healthy rhinos. Granville has

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made his way to Wooburn Safari Park, Bonnie has made

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her way to the West Midland Safari Park. The two

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parks said the swap is trying to preserve the genetic

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diversity of the species. Head zookeeper Lisa said, it's been

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bittersweet for the team. We all enjoyed watching them grow

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up from a cute little tank running around the safari

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excited to meet the other species and the habitat to

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the character he is today. We'll miss him coming up

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for a fuss in the morning. We will look forward

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to hearing that he's become a father in the future

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and we can visit him in his new home. After

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Hurricane Helene, a dog that was thought lost was found

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in a tree. Her family in Jonesboro, Tennessee, thought that,

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you know, we weren't going to see the dog again.

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When the river receded. The Kingsport Fire Department was out

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surveying the record. The canine dog was helping look for

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casual these and started barking crazy. Captain Zach and sold

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the local news the bloodhound was walking and then started

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going crazy. I just happened to look up in the

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tree and I was like, oh my god, there's a

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dog in the tree. The rescue team found a ladder

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in the debris and used it to climb up, and

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they got the puppy down. Athena, the dog cuddled with

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all the rescuers. Zach says she was thanking us. Congratulations

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to Antonia, a blackfooted ferret, and Tonia has just given

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birth to two healthy kits. Antonia herself was cloned from

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the DNA of a ferret taken into captivity in Wyoming. Wilma.

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The ferret died in the nineteen eighties, but through her DNA,

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one of the most endangered North American mammals as a

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new genetic lineage that might help it one day recover

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into the hordes that once roamed the North America prairie.

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The blackfooted Ferret program is run by the US Fish

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and Wildlife Service. It's the first time cloning was used

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as a conservation tool in North America. Antonio was one

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of three ferrets cloned in twenty twenty. The others, Noreena

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and Elizabeth Ann, live in a Colorado facility. All blackfooted

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ferrets are descended from seven individuals that creates some genetic challenges.

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Once thought to be extinct, they're currently listed as an

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endangered species. Blackfooted ferrets were recently rediscovered by a Wyoming

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ranchard whose dog showed up on the doorstep with a

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recently deceased ferret. A small colony of twenty four ferrets

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was located, which started the captive breeding program, in which

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seven reproduced. Good news in Florida, we caught your kangaroo. Yes,

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a kangaroo had escaped because it was fleeing from a bear.

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Like I always say with these stories, the details are

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what makes them wonderful. So you're in Florida, you have

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a kangaroo, and a bear starts messing with the kangaroo.

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The kangaroo escapes. The sheriff said. The kangaroo was spotted

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hopping around Pearson. It had escaped from its owner's property

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due to a bear entering the enclosure. The kangaroo was

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spotted on Wednesday at eight in the morning. The owner

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and the investigator showed up at the location. The kangaroo

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was successfully captured and returned to its home after being

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bedded down in heavy cover. Officials say kangaroos are legal

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to keep in Florida with a permit, but the owner

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could face a fine failure to report escape kangaroo within

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twelve hours. Those are your podkn news stories for today.

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