Bhubaneswar, March 16 -- Keonjhar: Call it a love for wildlife or a mother's unrelenting love, Kuntala Kumari Penthei from Purushottampur village in the district can easily be spotted every noon in the nearby jungle calling out her pet 'Dhuda', a wild boar.

It has been over a year since Kuntala lost her younger daughter to illness. But the wild boar calf that came running to her at the funeral of her daughter made her rethink the priority. She could either shed tears on the untimely death or as she herself terms it, embrace the new guest in her life as God's own way to fill her bosom again with maternal love.

She chose the latter and brought home the calf after naming it Dhuda to nurture it as one of her own. As time flew, the calf drew...