Guest Thinkers — March 29, 2011

Missing Bronx Zoo Cobra Is Tweeting

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@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing.

We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we’re still just a bunch of primates chattering about where the hell that snake is.

Hooray for traditional values!

[Photo credit: teachingsagittarian, Creative Commons.]

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