Zoo news

I dunno about the Bronx Zoo—it seems to have a real problem keeping the inmates, er, in.

You’ll recall that a young Egyptian cobra disappeared for a while back in March. According to BronxZoosCobra on Twitter, the snake enjoyed a few days out on the town before being recovered, recaged and eventually named Mia (as in Missing In Action).

You can believe the zoo’s official story, that the cobra never got out of the reptile house. I prefer the tweeted version.

But word came this past week that a peahen also flew the coop on the 9^th. She was captured after only a couple of days, but then she was obviously strutting a lot more than the cobra.

Naturally, she signed up for Twitter, but I’m not finding her tweets nearly as amusing as Mia’s. Also, she seems confused as to sexual identity, since her nom-de-tweet is BronxZooPeacock.

Her adventure ended rather mundanely, as she was captured by the owner of an auto glass repair shop about a mile from the zoo. At least the cobra made it to a Yankees game.


Plus, frankly, the Twitter peahen is only partially armed to engage in a battle of wits, if you catch my drift.

Still—what I’m wondering is what’s up with that zoo? I mean, is it that the chow sucks or they’ve cut back on the workers for the poop patrol? Perhaps we’ll see a mass breakout, followed by a movie by Pixar.