A rare member of the crocodile family “nipped” a zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo on Sunday, according to the zoo.<\/p>\n
Police said that the unidentified 38-year-old animal worker was cleaning the enclosure in the Reptile House around 2:30 p.m. when he slipped and the small fish-eating Tomistoma, also known as a Sunda gharial, snapped at him.<\/p>\n
The worker was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was treated and released, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe keeper was treated at a local hospital and released for a minor wound which did not need stitches,\u201d Mary Dixon, a spokeswoman for\u00a0the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the zoo, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The Tomistoma, an endangered member of the crocodilian order, lives primarily in Southeast Asian countries, according to the Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo website. It has a long, narrow snout and primarily eats fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare member of the crocodile family “nipped” a zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo on Sunday, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-242762","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\/242762","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=242762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}