{"id":242572,"date":"2026-05-24T20:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:56:44","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-bronx-zoo-employee-hospitalized-after-crocodile-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242572\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Bronx Zoo Employee Hospitalized After Crocodile Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx Zoo animal keeper was &#8220;nipped&#8221; at by a tomistama, according to the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Representatives from the zoo say that the keeper was cleaning an enclosure around 2:30 p.m. Sunday when they slipped and fell.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bronx Zoo released a statement to News 12, which reads, &#8220;the small tomistoma nipped at the left forearm of the keeper. The keeper was treated at a local hospital and released for a minor wound which did not need stitches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The animal is also called a Malayan gharial, which is a genus of gavialid crocodilians. They are recognized for their long and narrow snouts that are used to catch fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx Zoo animal keeper was &#8220;nipped&#8221; at by a tomistama, according to the Bronx Zoo. Representatives from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-242572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}