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No place like home: Peacock flies back to NYC zoo

NEW YORK

A peacock with a sense of adventure — and a good sense of direction — has flown back home to New York’s Central Park Zoo.

On Tuesday, humans flocked and tweeted as the peacock left the zoo for a perch on a Fifth Avenue window ledge. It had good taste: A condo there reportedly sold for $22.5 million in 2009.

Zookeepers predicted the handsome green and blue bird would make its way home — and it did just before 7 a.m. Wednesday.

It’s been a rebellious season in the city zoos.

In March, an Egyptian cobra was found nearly a week after it went missing at the Bronx Zoo’s Reptile House. Two months later, a zoo peahen was recovered at a nearby auto-body shop.

Pa. 911 dispatchers prepare for Batman-fueled calls

PITTSBURGH

Emergency dispatchers in Pittsburgh are preparing to take calls from residents who may be unprepared for fake gunshots, explosions and other mayhem while the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” films at various city locations.

The movie has received mammoth publicity in the local media. But Allegheny County Deputy Emergency Management Director Raymond DeMichiei tells WTAE-TV that some folks, no doubt, may be puzzled by some sights and sounds.

That’s why DeMichiei is telling residents, “If you hear shots fired or a disturbance or gunfire ... call 911 and report it, and we’ll figure it out.”

Traffic is expected to be affected, too, as some streets will be closed for filming and so crews can put down fake snow for some scenes.

Associated Press