Bronx Zoo workers were closing up exhibits Tuesday night when they noticed a Mangrove Snake had slithered out of its enclosure, the AP. A day later, the pair were picked up directly underneath their cage. A venomous snake is reportedly on the loose in the Bronx. They were non-poisonous (and, as we said, Canadian), which is likely why the story did not receive the same media attention that was lavished on the Bronx Zoo snake. Two more Canadian snakes fled their homes at the Calgary Zoo in February 2010. ![]() “The landlord says he’s lost $20,000 in rent and damages from unsuccessful attempts to capture the cobra.” The city’s public-health department “sealed off the building and banned tenants from returning until the elusive snake is found dead or alive,” CBC reported three months into the search. Years earlier, in late 2006, a poisonous cobra went AWOL from its enclosure in a Toronto apartment building, where it had been living as a pet with North America’s worst tenant. About two weeks later, the snake was located “roughly 100 yards away on the front porch of a Grant Park couple, where it was clubbed to death by homeowner Guy Mower,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Nearly a week after escaping from its cage, the venomous snake was found. ![]() “It’s nowhere near public access,” a zoo spokeswoman said at the time. Ma-The Bronx Zoo’s once missing Egyptian cobra is seen at the Bronz Zoo’s Reptile House in New York. In August 2010, a poisonous tiger snake (pictures suggest it’s much more snake than tiger) ventured from its home at the Zoo Atlanta. ![]() (It is “the snake’s game,” after all.) How might the creature’s game of hide-and-seek end? For answers, we turned to history’s most daring snake escapes. It’s day five of the search for the Bronx Zoo’s most daring cobra, and the animal remains missing.
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