Tweeting Bronx Zoo cobra's wanderings are hissstory (Reuters)

Friday, April 1, 2011 8:01 PM

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Found: One tweeting Egyptian cobra that slinked out of its detain at the borough Zoo a hebdomad past and mesmerised more than 210,000 grouping mass its Twitter take as it cosmopolitan around New York.

The borough Zoo's malevolent cobra was institute on weekday meet most 200 feet from its detain to the comfort of neighbors but the likely disappointment of those mass lighthearted tweets from @BronxZoosCobra -- a Twitter take created a some life after the snake's disappearance.

Lured with vegetation shavings wet of mice and rats, the cobra was unfree in a dark crossway of the Reptile House, its home since it arrived at the installation in February.

It went absent terminal week, suasion the installation to near its reptile enclosure.

"We are delighted to report that the snake has been institute alive and well," said borough Zoo Director Jim Breheny.

While a comfort to the zoo, the snake's getting haw stingy the modify of the witty take detailing the cobra's carousing around town.

Posting in blasts from stylish sights and field traveler attractions, @BronxZoosCobra managed to tweet in a some terminal sights before its getting was declared by the zoo.

"If you see a bag of peanuts inexplicably agitated along the connector at American Stadium today. Just cut it. It's probably nothing," reads the terminal tweet posted on weekday afternoon, on inaugural day of ballgame season.

(Writing by Bernd Debusmann Jr.; editing by Deborah Charles)


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