The Coffee Strealing Parrot and Farewell to Gramma, the 141 year old tortoise

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. In South Korea, police were called into the coffee cafe. You know why. It was a loose parrot. That's right. The Korean Animal Rescue and Management Association said police were called to the coffee shop. Not only was the parrot loose, it was stealing coffee from customers. See, that's the real issue. The parrot reported to be friendly. It was fed snacks by the cafe's owner and allowed customers to pettit while they waited for the police to show up. It is believed the parrot is a yellow crowned Amazon parrot native to Central America and it made its way to Korea. That's interesting. The species is endangered and not legal to be kept as a pet in South Korea without special permits. Keep an eye on the coffee stealing parrot. I have some Thanksgiving leftovers for you.

0:53 Nice job by Kathy Leslie. She owns Leslie's Sugar High Bakery and Cafe. They cooked up hot holiday meals for over seven hundred families, she told News Channel five Nashville. Listen, this is the truth. People are hurting. They're hurting financially, they don't have food. They're hurting mentally, so we just need to do the best that we can to be kind, loving and generous to somebody. That's called sugar Baby. Sugar High's annual Thanksgiving cookout began at twenty seventeen with the help of Princess Hot Chicken and the Housing Fund. Leslie estimates they've served around one thousand free meals. One of the volunteers said, we're showing them we care and showing them they're part of a great community. Nice job by those folks. Gus the turkey made it through Thanksgiving. That's good news for him. Gus is one of a growing number of turkeys that are being adopted instead of being covered in grievy. An increasing number of farm animal sanctuaries across the country have started promoting turkey adoption At Love and Arms. A twenty five dollars donation comes with a certificate, photo, and either a virtual or in person visit. That's what you'll find Gus or if you're in Denver. Love in Arms is about forty miles north of Denver. The funds he'll pay for the turkey outdoor pasture area, along with feeding and rescuing more turkeys. Mexico recently resigned it's fifty payso note. Why well, people are hoarding them. You see, they redesigned it and they have a picture of Gorda.

2:12 Gorda was an amphibian of sorts that lived at a Mexico city museum. The note was so well done it won Note of the Year at the International Banknote Society. Some first edition banknotes are now trading at one hundred times. They're roughly three dollars value. A particular salamander never loses its gills and remains aquatic its whole life. A report from the Mexican government says some one hundred and fifty million dollars worth of fifty paso notes are now out of circulation because people really just like looking at the Gorda. And this next story is not really good news at all, but let's consider it a celebration. Grandma the tortoise has passed away at age one hundred and forty one. Grandma lived in the San Diego Zoo and lived through twenty presidencies.

2:55 Born on the Galapagos Islands on November fifteenth, eighteen eighty four, living under a rock, her first few years. In the nineteen twenties and thirties, conservationists came to the Galopagos to save the species. During an expedition in either nineteen twenty eight or nineteen thirty one, it's unclear, Grandma made her way to the Bronx and eventually to San Diego. Grandma was born during Chester A. Arthur's presidency. She saw twenty presidents turn sixty during World War Two. Scientists say in the wild, every ten thousandth giant tortoise lives to be two hundred years old. In captivity, tortoises don't have to worry about predators, and they eat pretty well. One of the experts say they're essentially a horse with a shell.

3:36 They eat grass and leafy greens. Grandma the tortoise was one hundred and forty one years old. Those are your stories for today. Have a great day.