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Guess What's Loose at the Bronx Zoo?!

A very deadly Egyptian cobra that someone might want to put back in a cage
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 27, 2011 1:12 PM CDT
Egyptian Cobra Missing at the Bronx Zoo's Reptile House
Harrods worker Maggie Bartram watches Cedric, a highly aggressive and deadly Egyptian Cobra in London, Monday, Sept. 10, 2007.   (AP Photo / Fiona Hanson)

So the Bronx Zoo seems to have misplaced a pesky little thing we like to call a very deadly, aggressive Egyptian cobra, reports the New York Post. The 20-inch adolescent went missing yesterday, and workers who scoured all the likely places it would hide still haven't found it, reports the New York Daily News. The Zoo's Reptile House will remain closed until they locate it. "We are informing the public out of an abundance of caution," the zoo said in a statement. (More cobra stories.)

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