Cobra on the lam from the Bronx Zoo

[marmar]

The Bronx Zoo has closed its Reptile House indefinitely while it looks for a highly venomous cobra that has gone missing.

Here, according to The New York Times, is the sign explaining the problem:

The World of Reptiles is closed today. Staff observed an adolescent Egyptian cobra missing from an off-exhibit enclosure on Friday.

The 20-inch-long cobra vanished from its enclosure outside public view sometime Friday, but zoo officials say they are confident it is hiding in an isolated area away from the public.

Zoo dirctor Jim Breheny tells the Associated Press in an email that reptiles seek out confined spaces and that the cobra is undoubtedly hiding in a place it feels safe. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/03/bronx-zoo-closes-reptile-house-until-missing-cobra-shows-up/1

[hobbit709]

1. if it got outside, it's one frozen snake.

[NBachers]

2. If it's closed up in an enclosure, could someone have taken it?

[Bosso 63]

3. There is never a mongoose when you need one.

[Dappleganger]

4. And THIS is why we don't keep snakes in the house.

Seriously, I don't mind them but they are freaking escape artists and my bottom line is if it got out what could I handle being loose in the house?

Not snakes.
Not rats.

[Phentex]

5. Just like healthcare, the cobra runs out...

:)