The donkey living its best life with Wild Elk

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media, Hey, we found your donkey. He's been adopted by a herd of elk. Hello Johnny Mack with five good news stories. A hunter in northern California was out doing hunting stuff. I guess and whoo. Sounds like the donkey got pretty lucky if a hunter was out there anyway. The hunter posted on his Instagram channel video of a donkey separated from its owners. Back in twenty nineteen, Dave was out walking with Diesel the donkey. Something spooke to Diesel, the donkey and Diesel the donkey ran off into the woods. Dave and his wife looked all over, couldn't find the donkey, not even with drones. Over the years. They were sad, and they believed that the donkey probably wasn't up to the task of surviving in the wild.

0:47 However, the elk hooked it up. The hunter said, I pumped into a heard of elk that have adopted a donkey. I can't get overseeing it, and I'm amazed. The donkey looks happy and healthy. Dave and his wife have since adopted new donkeys, and they said they have no intention of trying to capture Diesel diesels. Around eight years old now and with three quarters of his life ahead of him. To catch him would be next to him possible. He is truly a wild burrow now, Good job, Elk. Meanwhile, more than nine hundred artifacts have been retrieved from two ancient shipwrecks discovered in the South China Sea, consisting of piles and piles of porcelain along with other pottery works and copper pieces. The wrecks or a testament to the vast maritime trading network overseen by the Ming dynasty. Ten thousand items in total were documented, one tenth of which were pulled to the surface. The two ships lie twelve miles apart, around ninety miles off the coast of Hainan good news for Dylan. He's ninety years old and doesn't have to push shopping carts anymore. Karen was a New Orleans news anchor. She was stunned when she saw ninety year old Dylan pushing shopping carts in the parking lot of a store.

1:52 Dylan is a former Air Force member who served in Colorado. In Greenland, he said he needed about twenty five hundred dollars a month to make ends meat, but only got half of that from Social Security. That's why he took the job. The fundraiser read, he's a veteran of the United States military. It's hot. Mister McCormick was born in nineteen thirty three, making him part of the Silent Generation. Please America, let us be his voice. We can do this. The GoFundMe had a target of thirty five thousand dollars. In twenty four hours, two hundred grand rolled in through private donations. They cut the thing off at two thirty three. The GoFundMe was updated saying, no longer will the ninety year old veteran have to push shopping carts in triple digit heat just to put food on his table. Should he choose to remain working, it'll be just that his choice. If you're in Chicago, you might want to check out the Brookfield Zoo. Koalas Brumby and Willem are the first koals to take up residents at the Brookfield Zoo. The zoo turns ninety this month. The Koalas are on loan from the San Diego Zoo for two years. I was just in the San Diego Zoo two weeks ago.

2:50 By the time you're hearing this, Mark is the Zoo's Associate Vice president of Animal Care and Conservation and says, we do have plans to reinvigorate or reimagine our Australian area of the Zoo in the future, and we're hoping that the Qualas could potentially be a mainstay for the zoo in the future. He says, both Qualas are settling in really well. Meanwhile, I don't know where the Qualas are from, perhaps from Tasmania. Tasmania is trying to get winter tourists down there now Our summer is their winter. Tasmania is offering people the opportunity to swap the daily grind of your job for an unusual, temporary role during the Tasmanian off season. Some of the jobs paranormal investigator, wombat walker and stargazer. Now the jobs are unpaid, However, successful applicants will have all their expenses including travel, food and hotels, covered by the Tasmanian Tourist Board. That's not bad at all. The paranormal investigator role is voluntary and just for one day. It's open to those with an interest in history and mystery and it devolves picking up on paranormal activity using the latest ghost hunting equipment at Willow Court, one of Australia's oldest asylums. Another job is an oyster organizer. What you do there is you sort, clean, and categorize oil oysters freshly arvested from the Great Oyster Bay. There will also be opportunities to taste test the oysters, however, that's purely for quality control. Maybe you want to be a truffle hunter, or a wine whisper or a wombat walker. During Tasmanian winter's temperatures typically fall between three and eleven degrees celsius.

4:17 As I'm sweating here in the basement recording a podcast as it's about thirty seven celsius down here eleven. That sounds pretty nice about now. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you like this program without those pesky commercials, there's a link in the show notes. It says caliberuga dot com slash plus. You click on that, you fill out some stuff and you get this podcast with a bunch of others add free for just four and ninety nine a month. If you're on Apple Podcasts, they'll put that option right in front of you where it says subscribe, check that out. On the Apple version. There's a thirty day free trial if you want to try that as well. All right, see you next time.