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The thread centers on sharing a news item about the Bronx Zoo’s escaped Egyptian cobra, now named “Mia” after an online contest. The key discussion point is that the name was chosen from 33,000 nominations (with finalists including Agnes, Amaunet, Cleopatra, Subira, and Mia) and that the escape story was amplified by a fake Twitter account with a large following. Overall, sentiment appears light and engaged, focused on the quirky publicity surrounding the snake’s escapades.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The venomous Egyptian cobra that slithered its way to fame by escaping its enclosure at New York's Bronx Zoo for a week before being recaptured has been given a name -- Mia, as in "missing in action."

The winning name announced on Thursday by zoo officials was selected from 33,000 nominations made in an online contest launched by the zoo and the New York Daily News.

There were five finalists -- Agnes, Amaunet, Cleopatra, Subira and Mia.

No matter what her given name, the adolescent female snake may always be known to many as @BronxZoosCobra, a fake Twitter account about the snake's imagined escapades that has nearly 240,000 followers.

During her disappearance last month, the tweets focused on her alleged jaunts to New York's tourist attractions.


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