![]() ![]() That won't work for the cobra in The Bronx," he said. Robert Moore performed microsurgery on an adult African egg-eating snake at the Bronx Zoo’s Animal Health Center. And as the snake continues to elude authorities, the number of humorous tweets continues to grow. ![]() "Pythons survive here because they are suited to the weather. The Twitter account BronxZoosCobra now has 151,299 followers compared to the Bronx Zoo’s 8,142. Recent temperatures in the 40s in New York City mean the chances of the cobra surviving outside the Bronx Zoo building, had it gotten out, are impossible, he said. New Yorkers shouldn't be scared that a missing cobra would spawn like the proliferating pythons in South Florida, Lovett said. And besides, the zoo has no poisonous snakes, although it has in the past. Putting trackers on the snakes and the other 1,300 animals - including birds, insects and fish - at the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park in West Palm Beach would be too expensive, said Keith Lovett, director of living collections. "And the transmitter only lasts about two months." "If it's in the food, the snake will pass it fairly soon," Hitzig said. The thumb-sized machines can be fed to snakes inside a meal of rats or mice, or surgically implanted beneath their skin. While snake-tracking devices are available, Busch Wildlife doesn't use the gadgets on the 60 snakes - about 20 are poisonous - in its collection. Its venom could cause death within minutes. The missing Bronx cobra, about 20 inches long, was found Thursday inside the reptile house where it made its escape. "Our snake exhibit is within a sealed building," said David Hitzig, executive director of the sanctuary off Central Boulevard in Jupiter. Luckily, the 4-foot Egyptian cobra at the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary has never escaped like the one on the lam for six days from the Bronx Zoo.
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