{"id":243037,"date":"2026-05-25T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243037\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:42:10","slug":"crocodile-bites-zookeeper-at-bronx-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243037\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile bites zookeeper at Bronx Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/nyc-weather-memorial-day-forecast-e1779713945282.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BRONX, NY &#8211; A Bronx Zoo worker is recovering after being bitten by a crocodile over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident happened while a zookeeper was cleaning a habitat that houses a small freshwater crocodile.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When the worker slipped, zoo officials say the reptiles nipped his arm.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The worker was not seriously injured, but was transported for medical evaluation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The zoo has yet to release any further details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\/bronx-zoo\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx Zoo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BRONX, NY &#8211; A Bronx Zoo worker is recovering after being bitten by a crocodile over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,25511,9,24,55,54,12,56,63,36366,618],"class_list":["post-243037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-zoo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pets-animals","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243037","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=243037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}