Mia or “Missing In Action” was the name given to the escaped Egyptian cobra at the Bronx Zoo in New City. The venomous cobra became famous worldwide after it escaped from it’s lair one week ago. The 20-inch adolescent female snake have managed to escaped from the closely guarded chamber but was recaptured later.
After thorough evaluation and online voting, people have chosen the name Mia, for the Bronx Zoo cobra. Mia means Missing In Action, it was derived from the name given to the soldiers during the cold war who have defected or simply unable to do their duty.
Bronx Zoo officials and the New Times Daily had done an online survey to choose a name for the escaped cobra that was recaptured. Out of 33,000 nominations, the following have emerged as the top contenders: Agnes, Amaunet, Cleopatra, Subira and Mia. With a total of 30,000 votes Mia was considered as the new name of the escaped cobra.
Mia was more popularly known as “Bronx Zoo Egyptian Cobra”. It was also the name that was used by a certain individual who managed to make Mia became famous in the internet especially in the mirco-blogging network Twitter. As of this writing the fictitious name have already gathered a total of number of followers close to 240,000.
Mia will go on public at the Rectile House on Saturday. After the name Mia was chosen the humorous twitter account of bronx cobra have tweeted and was quoted as “So, the vote is in. They want to name me Mia. But in my heart I’ll always know that my true name is Mrs. Justin Bieber.
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