Wildlife Conservation Society officials are expected to announce that they have recovered the Egyptian cobra that had escaped recently, a source told Fox 5.
The highly venomous 20-inch-long snake apparently escaped from its habitat sometime Friday, although zoo officials said then that it was likely hiding out somewhere inside the Reptile House, which has remained closed since the weekend.
Someone created a Twitter account called @bronxzooscobra and quickly garnered almost 200,000 followers.
Apparently the “cobra” itself wasn’t giving away that it had been caught. Around 2:10 p.m. it tweeted: “If you see a bag of peanuts inexplicably moving along the ground at Yankee Stadium today. Just ignore it. It’s probably nothing.”
