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Confirmed: 'Bronx Zoo Cobra' Hasss Been Found

By Mark Memmott
Published March 31, 2011 at 1:24 PM MDT
In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Bronx Zoo's once missing Egyptian Cobra is seen at the Bronx Zoo's Reptile House.
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In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Bronx Zoo's once missing Egyptian Cobra is seen at the Bronx Zoo's Reptile House.

The snake's Twitter page . It last a couple hours ago.

But MyFoxNY.com claims to have been told by a source that officials from the Wildlife Conservation Society are going to announce soon that the "Bronx Zoo cobra" has been recovered.

And NBC News says it's been told "the snake is now in quarantine" and that a 4 p.m. ET news conference is planned.

If you're not up to ssspeed on this story, you could start here.

Update at 4:03 p.m. ET: "We found our snake and we're very happy," Jim Breheny, says the zoo's director, according to New York's Daily News. The tabloid says it was spotted around 9 a.m. ET, curled up in a corner.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
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