Kangaroo escapes...in Canada! Scientists on way to eliminating red wine headaches!

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Hope you had a good Christmas. So I'm going to try and do this three days a week now. In the past that's been twice a week, and then you guys responded really well to going every day at Christmas time, and I want to thank Astor for helping out with those. So I'm going to try and do Monday, Wednesday Friday heading forward. I didn't put out an episode on Christmas Day, figured you had something else to do. So this week we'll do Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and then Monday Wednesday Friday next week, including at New Year's Day. Speaking of which, if you're planning on partying New Year's Eve. Good News scientists have figured out the reason why drinking red wine can leave some people with a banging head. Researchers have found that a natural flavonol compound and red wines can interfere with the metabolism of alcohol, which leads to a headache. The University of California team and Davis says it's all about querciton, which is naturally present in many fruits and vegetables, including grapes, A professor says, if you grow reaps with the clusters exposed, such as they do in Napa Valley for their cabernets, you get much higher levels of quercenton. The next step is to test it scientifically on people who develop headaches from red wine. Stay tuned, They say. Community members knew that the late Jeffrey Holt was a reserved man who liked simple things.

1:15 What they didn't know he was sitting on a three point eight million dollar fortune. He left behind most of his money to the Town of Hinsdale. The town administrator said the town and other community committees can apply annually for a grant of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be used for health, education, culture, or recreation. The town is considering using the money for an electronic ballot machine, since Holtz was an avid voter. Good news The average life expectancy in the US is now seventy seven point five years old. It turned around a little bit. It's an increase of one point one years over the twenty twenty one numbers. A demographer at the CDC says the good news is that life expectancy increased for the first time in two years. The not so good news is the increase in life expectancy only accounted for less than fifty percent of the loss that was experienced between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one.

2:01 In twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, COVID nineteen became the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Average US life expectancy dropped by two point four years. The current seventy seven and a half years is the level it was at two thousand and three. Most of the gains in twenty twenty two US life expectancy came from fewer COVID deaths. Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a species of mole. This mole has a golden coat and the ability to almost swim through sand dunes, and it hadn't been seen in more than eighty years. It was thought to be extinct. Good job by the Dewinton golden mole. A small blind burrower with superhering powers that eats insects, was found to be still alive on a beach on the west coast of South Africa. Nobody had seen it since nineteen thirty six. With the help of a sniffer dog. The team found traces of tunnels discovered a golden mole.

2:50 In twenty twenty one, they took a DNA sample and now two Dewinton golden moles have been confirmed and photographed. Esther is a senior field officer with the Endangered Wildlife trustin says it was a very exciting project with many challenges. Luckily we had a fantastic theme full of enthusiasm and innovative ideas, which is exactly what you need when you have to survey up to eleven miles of dune habitat in a day. The Dewinton golden mole was on a most Wanted lost species list compiled by the re wild Conservation Group. Others on the list that had been rediscovered include a salamander found in Guatemalan twenty seventeen, forty two years after its last sighting, and an elephant shrew seen in twenty nineteen, its first sighting since nineteen sixty eight. Good news, we caught the kangaroo, and for once, the kangaroo story is not happening in Australia. No, this happened in Quebec. The kangaroo was an route to a zoo and had escaped its handlers. Police bought out a female kangaroo that was on the run for several days near Toronto, Canada. Time out. Did you see recently there was a bull on the path train in Newark, New Jersey. By New York City. There's a hilarious video on the internet of a bull running down the tracks. Anyway, the kangaroo at one point was seen running alongside a street that had made the rounds on social media. One of the kangaroos escaped its handlers as it was being unloaded. The park supervisor said that one jumped right over them. They lost control of it. It was just able to simply run right across into a bunch of farm fields. The escape sparked a four day search and rescue mission. There were multiple sightings of the kangaroo.

4:17 Paul Rellinger told CBC it was a little bit odd to start a rewarding At first he thought it was a deer, but quickly realized it was a kangaroo. I've seen both. They're very different looking. To be fair, Rellinger said, who expects to see a kangaroo, especially in this part of the world. And in news release, the Durham Regional Police said the kangaroo was caught when it stopped to take a break. This David says, while doing so, the officers managed to sneak up behind her and grab HER's hail. The kangaroo surrendered peacefully and it was taken back to the zoo. It's now hanging out with some other animals, keeping warm and eating a nice meal. That's your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. Maybe they'll enjoy it as well. If you see a kangaroo, let me know U. Let's sure in Australia, in which case, yeah, you saw a kangaroo. You're not impressed.

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