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Bronx Zoo: Deadly Egyptian Cobra Missing From Reptile House
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by MROliver | March 28, 2011 at 05:35 am
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A Highly Venomous Adolescent Egyptian Cobra Went Missing From the Reptile House in the Bronx Zoo on Friday
The Reptile House is still closed while staff search for the missing snake, which can grow up to two yards in length.
This one that went missing, being only an adolescent, is about 20 inches in size, and usually preys on toads and birds, not humans, but it's venom can cause respiratory failure.
Staff are confident that the snake is still inside the reptile house somewhere.
“To understand the situation, you have to understand snakes,” Jim Breheny, the director, said in a written statement. “Upon leaving its enclosure, the snake would feel vulnerable and seek out a place to hide and feel safe. When the snake gets hungry or thirsty, it will start to move around the building. Once that happens, it will be our best opportunity to recover it.”
No doubt it will be recovered soon.
Let's hope so.
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at 05:51 on March 28th, 2011
Check the pizza.
at 06:46 on March 28th, 2011
Zoos are an unnecessary public expense and a cruel abuse of animals -- all for the alleged educational value of city dwellers but really for the "business" of making money and jobs off animals. The animals ought to be released from captivity into their natural wilds.
at 10:17 on March 28th, 2011
Zoos are a genetic bank of living species from where extinct species can and have been recovered. The more sample species we have in zoos, the broader the genetic pool for those species that we can save against the day when we figure out how to keep wild spaces intact for those other earthlings. so long as farmers chop down bush for another sugar cane crop or beef pasture, we will need to keep our zoos going. The better we fund them, the better the habitat will be for the animals. Good habitat means happy animals, and ultimately that signals a good zoo. Unhappy animals do not breed or thrive as well.
If you love animals, report zoos who keep them in unsuitable enclosures, and donate to the others.
at 13:59 on March 28th, 2011
That wasn't too hard. Here he is.