This has been the summer of the snake at Coney Island ,the latest of countless come -and -go pop-up spectacles along the rickety and uneven boards. For a mere $5,you, too, can take a selfie with a 40-pound boa constrictor that eats live rats and dislikes the sorts of sudden jerking movements that naturally flow having a heavy rat-eating things placed upon you.
The variety of wildlife available for photographs at Coney Island made a headlines this month when a young man's pet wallaby, that kangaroo-adjacent animal native to Australia ,was seized on the boardwalk by the police. The man , Mike Gibbons,23,who lives nearly ,was told that he needed a permit to own a wallaby, and his pet was delivered to an animal shelter on long Island.