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San Diego Zoo polls public to name its new albino cobra, captured in Thousand Oaks
The San Diego Zoo is calling on the public to help it name their new attraction: an albino cobra who was captured in Thousand Oaks.
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A venomous leucistic monacled cobra that spooked the Thousand Oaks area in September is set to make its debut at the San Diego Zoo, and officials are looking to the public to help give her a name.
The zoo has six contenders listed in a poll on its website:
Adhira - "lightning"
Saphēda - "white"
Krīma - "cream"
Cīnī - "sugar"
Mōtī - "pearl"
Sundara - "beautiful"
When it was caught, L.A. Zoo officials looked her over and determined that she apparently still had her venom glands intact. They decided to send her to the San Diego Zoo, where they had the correct anti-venom needed to treat a potential cobra bite.
Here they are very carefully transferring her to a new cage:
Youtube: Capturing an albino cobra
It's still not clear where the snake came from. Zoo officials suspect she was being kept illegally as someone's pet.
After three months in quarantine, she's expected to go on display at the San Diego Zoo very soon. Zoo officials were not available to comment on when.
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