The cobra which escaped from the Bronx Zoo (New York) reptile house has been found alive! http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/31/new.york.missing.snake/index.html In honor of the success: Roman Provincial Egypt Hadrian Bronze Obol with Cobra Obverse: Laureate head right AVT KAI TPAI ADPRIA CEB Reverse: Cobra erect with head left, hood spread, crowned with horns and disc, enfolds stalk of grain and a poppy L-ID (year 14) in field Catalog: Milne 2249 Diameter: 19.6mm Weight: 4.9gm Struck Alexandria, Egypt AD 129-130 The cobra was a symbol of royalty and authority in ancient Egypt
Glad they found it alive . It was probably getting hungry . I guess you could say the asp smelled a rat . Rusty
The Bronx Zoo snake, the real one, has been captured in an incredibly anticlimactic fashion. After the news broke that a small Egyptian snake had gotten loose in the Bronx Zoo, it became a large tale and a hilarious Twitter page was started posting Tweets from a fictional snake loose in New York. The real story of the cobra is compellingly unknown. It might be more interesting to take out a "Reptile vacation over with capture of Bronx Zoo cobra" and constitute a tale.
