{"id":242871,"date":"2026-05-25T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:59:41","slug":"crocodilian-bites-bronx-zoo-keeper-causing-minor-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242871\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodilian bites Bronx Zoo keeper, causing minor injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx Zoo keeper suffered a minor arm injury after being bitten by a crocodilian reptile, according to zoo officials. The keeper was treated at a hospital and released.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday while the keeper was cleaning an enclosure with a tomistoma, also known as a Malayan gharial, the Bronx Zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials said the keeper slipped while cleaning the enclosure and the animal \u201cnipped at the left forearm of the keeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe keeper was treated at a local hospital and released for a minor wound which did not need stitches,\u201d the Bronx Zoo said in a statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/worker-bronx-zoo-taken-hospital-bitten-crocodile\/19163673\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WABC reported<\/a> that the worker was taken to nearby St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>\tArticle continues below the player<\/p>\n<p>A tomistoma is a long-snouted crocodilian native to parts of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and Indonesia. It is also known as a Malayan gharial and is related to crocodiles, alligators and gharials.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported. The status of the tomistoma was not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx Zoo keeper suffered a minor arm injury after being bitten by a crocodilian reptile, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[11640,128,25511,9,24,18643,63,129,18644,131,130],"class_list":["post-242871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-animal-attacks","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-zoo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-new-york","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242871","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=242871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}