![]() Kids can take a ride on the Endangered Species Carousel, scale new heights on the rock wall, or choo choo choo to spend some time on the Zoo Train! There is even a Splash Fountain and Treetop Trail! With playgrounds, STEM Sundays and Vet Academy, the fun just keeps on giving! The Bronx Zoo did not immediately return a request for comment.There are kids activities that range from interactive to engaging mystery hunts, storybook reading and even grooving like their favorite animals! Mangrove snakes are nocturnal snakes native to southeast Asia and eat small mammals including birds and rats, as well as reptiles including lizards and other snakes. More than 100 protesters showed up at the zoo in June, demanding that Happy be sent to an animal sanctuary where she can live happily with other elephants.īut zoo director Jim Breheny insisted Happy was content, saying, “She is quite content and evaluated frequently by the people who know her best.” ![]() The zoo has already been in hot water this year over the treatment of its female elephant Happy, who has lived alone at the Bronx Zoo for 13 years. A deadly Egyptian Cobra escaped in 2011 - and wasn’t found for a week. This is not the first time the Bronx Zoo has lost a snake. Workers said a night crew would be dispatched to continue searching.Īsked if it was safe for people to be walking around, he dismissively replied: “If it wasn’t safe do you think I would be standing here?” “They are very smart, you know,” he said. ![]() One employee explained only that it somehow “slithered out.” Two zoo employees with flashlights were seen scouring the area near where the snake went missing Wednesday - but wouldn’t explain how the serpent escaped. Jungle World is otherwise only surrounded by a bamboo fence. Most of the zoo’s snakes - including a king cobra and an anaconda - live in a separate World of Reptiles exhibit, but the tree-dwelling Timor python and mangrove snakes live in separate glass cases in Jungle World to reflect their native southeast Asian habitat. “To think I went in there with my son and my mother and my sister.” I wouldn’t go in there if I knew,” he said. Queens man Engelbert Balboa, 33, was equally terrified. Now I’m feeling terrified … I don’t like snakes at all.” “It’s irresponsible of them,” said Lucia Crespo, 29, a teacher who was visiting with her young son. Most people lining up to enter the exhibit failed to notice the small sign and weren’t verbally warned while paying $6 for a ticket - and many said they wouldn’t have gone in if they knew a snake was on the lam inside. ![]() A venomous Mangrove snake has gone missing from the Jungle World attraction at the Bronx Zoo. There have been no known mangrove snake fatalities, although their venom can cause painful swelling and discoloration of the skin, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.īut zoo-goers hardly got a chance to decide whether they wanted to risk that fate Wednesday. There is little chance of seeing or coming in contact with this snake due to its timid, secretive nature but if you see it, please notify a staff person,” it continues. “Mangrove snakes are a shy, arboreal species that are active at night. They are mildly venomous, but not dangerous to people.” Happy the elephant is not a 'person,' New York's highest court rulesĭon’t worry, this guy doesn’t bite - much.Ī venomous, tree-climbing 3-foot mangrove snake is on the loose after it escaped its enclosure at the Bronx Zoo Tuesday night - but officials there have kept the area open with just one little sign downplaying the danger.Ī letter-sized sign placed next to the ticket office for Jungle World Wednesday reads: “Dear visitors, a 3 and a half foot long mangrove snake is missing from its exhibit in Jungle World. Oh deer! Emotionally disturbed man allegedly enters Bronx Zoo animal enclosure 'Anti-zoo agenda?': City Council mulling bill to remove NYC's only elephants from Bronx Zoo
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