Buddy, Can You Spare a Mongoose?

A deadly Egyptian cobra is AWOL from the Bronx Zoo. Anybody got a spare mongoose?[Photo credit: Pandiyan, Creative Commons.]

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Lindsay Beyerstein

March 27, 2011

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A deadly Egyptian cobra is AWOL from the Bronx Zoo. Anybody got a spare mongoose?

[Photo credit: Pandiyan, Creative Commons.]

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