Jan. 19, 2025

Monkey Mischief and Elk Rescues

Show Notes
Transcript

00:00 Introduction and First Good News Story: Monkey Thief
00:49 Second Good News Story: Mastodon Tooth Discovery
01:41 Third Good News Story: Eradication of Murder Hornets
02:19 Fourth Good News Story: Coast Guard Rescues Dummy
02:58 Fifth Good News Story: Bull Elk Rescue

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. Hey, good news. We figured out who triggered

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the alarm. Now there was a thief involved, but this

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is not your typical story. Teams from a security group

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in South Africa responded to a home where a panic

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alarm had been triggered by a monkey that had stolen

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the homeowner's security remote. The security company posted on social

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media that under the impression of the client must have

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been under distress. Several units were immediately dispatched to the home.

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Upon the first team's arrival, to client informed them that

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a monkey had gotten another home and after remote containing

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the petic button. They added, in an unusual turn of events,

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the client opted not to have our teams chase down

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the monkey and let them get away with the loot. Meanwhile,

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in Scotchtown, New York, they thought it was an old baseball.

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It was not an old baseball. It was a tooth

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of a mastodon. Doctor Harris was going about his business

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in walks a married couple. They're carrying a cardboard box.

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They were excited to open it and show doctor Harris

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what was inside. Harris is an archaeologist and says more

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often than not, it's just a weird rock. You disappointed

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people because they thought it was something really cool and

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it's not. And they opened the box and it was

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too yellow teeth from a mastodon. Doctor Harris was quite excited.

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He said, I was crazy excited. It was the same

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old school excitement I felt when I got into this

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field in the first place. The couple discovered the mastodon

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jaw when something was poking out of the grass in

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their backyard. At first they thought it was a baseball,

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not a baseball. The mastodon went extinct in North America

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about ten thousand years ago. Pretty cool, well not for

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the mesdon you know me? And cool story, you know

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what I'm trying to say. Look, I didn't kill the maston.

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Leave me alone. Now the world's largest hornet dubbed the

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murder hornet. Bad news for them. They're not going to

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like today's episode at all. Neither of the mastodon. The

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murder hornets have been eradicated in the US five years

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after being spotted for the first time in Washington State.

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Savin Spickager is a past program manager at the Washington

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State Department of agric Culture, and in a news conference

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he said, I gotta tell you, as an entomologist, I've

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been doing this for over twenty five years now. It's

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a rare day when the humans actually get to win

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one against the insects. Murder hornets can be two inches long.

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They gained attention to twenty thirteen when they killed the

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forty two people in China and seriously injured over sixteen hundred.

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Scientists will remain on the lookout despite reporting the eradication. Meanwhile,

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the British Coast Guard have responded to a person shaped

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object in the water. You would assume the person shaped

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object would be a person. Nope, it was a training dummy.

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The HM Coastguard Fleetwood set. A crew was called out

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to Cove Cafe where witness reported seeing something human like

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in the water. Coast Guard showed up. They said the

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object was suspiciously person shape, but clearly not a person.

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Upon closer inspection of a video taken by the informant,

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we immediately recognized it as the type of dummy used

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for man overboard drills. The coast Guard did retrieve the

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fake victim to prevent the dummy from causing more concern

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and confusion as it drifted up the shoreline and good

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news there were a bull elk. Wildlife officials and several

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climbers rescued the bull elk by lowering it down a cliff.

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After the bull elk had become entangled in a rope

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out of popular ice climbing area in Colorado, some ice

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climbers had found the elk. A biologist darted the elk

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with a tranquilizer and covered part of its head with

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a ski mask to protect its eyes. During the rescue,

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the team cut the rope away from the elk's antlers

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and then had to find a way to get the

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seven hundred pound elk down from the climbing wall. That's

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when the ice climbers helped. They helped the wildlife officers

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rica system that used two ropes, one under the elk's

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chest and another along its antlers to lower it to

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the base of the route. Once the elk was on

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level ground, the wildlife team reversed the effects of the tranquilizer,

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and about twelve minutes later, the elk woke up and

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ran away. Apparently, elk sometimes get their antlers entangled in

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man made hazards such as clotheslines, fencing, and hammocks Happy

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the elk cut out of this one, And those are

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your five good news stories for today again, unless you're

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a murder hornet and possibly amassed it on. Sorry guys,

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everybody else have a great day.