Zoo Director Jim Breheny holds the peahen as Dr. Paul Calle, WCS Director of Zoological Health, examines the bird. (Photo Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society. / May 11, 2011) |
BRONX, NY (PIX11) -- The green peahen that one-upped a certain cobra by actually escaping the confines of the Bronx Zoo, is back in captivity.
The peahen, which is a female version of the peacock, was found wandering the streets of the Bronx Wednesday morning.
She was discovered in the garage of a local business and safely returned to her zoo enclosure.
The escape of the peahen comes a month after a venomous Egyptian cobra was reported missing. The cobra was found a week later, still inside the reptile house, but outside of its enclosure.
Zoo officials appropriately named the cobra MIA or, Missing in Action.
