So, an Egyptian cobra went missing from the Bronx Zoo this weekend. This snake is extremely deadly and is said to be able to kill an elephant in 3 hours, and a human in 15 minutes. Clearly, this is a VERY dangerous situation! The zoo closed down the reptile exhibit and said that they are pretty confident that the snake is still somewhere in the reptile house since the Egyptian cobra likes closed-in spaces. This all went down on Saturday. My question is, okay, it's now Monday- two days later, and no snake.... Red flags are certainly presenting themselves! This snake is highly deadly, and the venom is some of the deadliest of all snakes. So why is no one freaking out yet!? This story creeps me out, especially thinking about where that snake could be! If they don't find it mid-week, I'd say it's necessary to put the zoo on high alert. I think it's a bit ridiculous that they are even allowing customers to still visit the zoo! That seems very dangerous to me.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/27/new.york.missing.cobra/index.html?hpt=P1&iref=NS1
I agree. I think that as soon as they realized the snake was missing they should have closed the zoo down! They said they don't think it was gone long enough to leave the reptile room, but how do they know? How do they know how long the snake was missing? It's dangerous, so many woman children and families go to the zoo every day and to have a snake that can kill you slithering around it just awful. Common sense would tell people to stay away just knowing what is loose in there. Yet my sociology professor says there is no such thing as common sense, so it would make sense to close the zoo for the stupid people that can't take a hint that their lives could be in danger.
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