Here Snake...come to mamma!

[skipaway]

Anyone want to visit the zoo today?



Missing Cobra

[ChelleC]

Where's someone who speaks parseltongue when you need them?

[Jot the Dot Dot]

Yeah, those creatures can be a pain in the asp.

[rfisher]

Where's someone who speaks parseltongue when you need them?

Just when you need an heir of Slytherin, there are none to be had. Typical Slytherin.

[nubka]

I'm cancelling my trip to the Bronx...

[Wiery]

Eeek! Lucky it's cold outside, if it did get out it wouldn't get far...

[Holley Calmes]

I guess this puts the Bronx up there with the Everglades for snake phobia. I understand south Florida has a rash of boas or pythons-like hundreds of thousands. Makes an alligator look like a pet.

[The Village Idiot]

People are funny:

http://twitter.com/BronxZoosCobra

[manleywoman]

Bronx Zoo's Cobra:
Dear @CharlieSheen, know what's better than tiger's blood? Cobra venom. #winning #snakeonthetown Also I'm 20 inches long. Just sayin'.

[talulabell]

People are funny:

http://twitter.com/BronxZoosCobra

This is awesome!

BronxZoosCobra:
Holding very still in the snake exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. This is gonna be hilarious!

[sk9tingfan]

I have visions of the cobra finding refuge up under the hood of a car near the engine, very much like cats like to do. Sauteed snake anyone? And in the great tradition of flight of ideas, would Tony Bourdain eat it? (Anyone see that episode of A Cook's Tour where he had the 5 course cobra meal?)

[ChelleC]

People are funny:

http://twitter.com/BronxZoosCobra

Too funny!

[Marge_Simpson]

My best friend's husband actually works at the Bronx Zoo. He's an accountant and his building is nowhere near the reptile house. However, he is terrified of snakes. He has been wearing rubber boots to work ever since the cobra escaped.

[Meredith]

http://twitter.com/BronxZoosCobra

snakeonthetown:
Leaving Wall Street. These guys make my skin crawl.

[sk9tingfan]

125,000+ are now following "the cobra's" escapades. I'm sure that at some point, the person who thought to do this will reveal themselves. If they are unemployed or are looking for a new line of work, this should help them immensely!

[marbri]

Anyone want to visit the zoo today?



Missing Cobra

that they present the locked door as a way to calm people. I know if I were a snake escaping the first place I'd go is through the front door.

[The Village Idiot]

More funny people:

http://gothamist.com/2011/03/30/will...bronx_zoos.php

[NeilJLeonard]

I guess this puts the Bronx up there with the Everglades for snake phobia. I understand south Florida has a rash of boas or pythons-like hundreds of thousands. Makes an alligator look like a pet.

No. There was a short TV series on this last year. The survey, or whatever you want to call it, that was the feature of this show states that the population of these snakes, and the area that they have spread over, is overestimated by a huge amount. There may be a couple thousand pythons roaming the glades. Or not. The number that escaped from the warehouse that was destroyed during Hurricane Andrew are in the hundreds. They, and their progeny, are causing most of the problems. Many, especially the largest ones, died from the cold in the frigid winter we had last year.

This is not to say they are not there. They are. Mostly in the southernmost part of the state. As are some "pet" snakes that idiots have released because they can't take care of them. But the threat is much less than thought at first.

NJL

[The Village Idiot]

The end. Allegedly.

http://gothamist.com/2011/03/31/miss..._zoo_cobra.php

[Rex]

So glad thissssssssss has come to an end. I've been positively rattled by all this venomous snake talk....