A woman with a heart for animals started a wildlife education center with a few animal companions from college, a boa constrictor, a desert tortoise, an Amazon parrot and a chinchilla.

It’s not every day first responders are called out to save a nocturnal bird of prey, but that’s what happened last week at Chalk Ridge Falls.

Bird flu (avian influenza) has been confirmed in Darbhanga, Bihar, after thousands of crows died, triggering high alert.