Eddy's Good News: Lottery winners spread love and how humans are similar to chimpanzee's

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24 Nov 2022, 10:21

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Thursday 24th November 2022

Heart warming news from Canada as two best mates win the lottery then set about spreading love and cash around their neighbourhood!

Say hey to BFFs JoAnn MacQueen and Marlisa Mercer who had the knee buckling experience of scanning their lottery ticket to find they’d won a million dollars. So rather than move to Tahiti or buy twin helicopters, they decided the best thing would be to make some home improvements, and by home I mean their home town of Orillia in Ontario.

This included life changing donations to a Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, the Orillia SPCA, and the Farley Foundation, an Ontario-based charity that helps low-income pet owners take care of their animals. The kindness continued! The Salvation Army to the Royal Canadian Legion poppy campaign in Orillia, a local Hospice, a local cat shelter, and a non profit which helps the poor and needy get access to fresh fruit and vegetables all received huge wads. Joanne and Marlisa, we, and your neighbourhood, salute you!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Fascinating news from Germany and here in the UK as behavioural psychologists release a study into chimpanzees that shows they’re even more human than we thought.

Say hello to researchers at Universities of Osnabrook and York who’ve been studying families of chimpanzees in Uganda and observed they have a characteristic once thought exclusive to humans and they’re calling it “declarative referential gesturing”. To you and me, this is simply showing something to someone with no point other than to say “look, how cool is this?”. While we do this with our phones, they noticed that chimp family members and friends were doing it with leaves. It’s the first recorded observation of this very human behaviour in the animal kingdom and I would bet a kidney it’s not the last. Have a look at corvids guys, I bet you’ll see the same thing with crows or magpies.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org