I feel like snakes can just get in under the fence? As they normally would? And I’m positive a zoo doesn’t just go “welp. That giraffe was alllllright, I guess”
But I can’t imagine them using pesticides or anything either
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because snakes don’t bite other animals for the sake of biting them. Why would a snake bite a giraffe, the giraffe is way to big for any snake to eat. Venom takes a lot of time and energy for the snake to produce and it will avoid the giraffe.
Snakes are pretty scared animals, they try to avoid areas with lots of people and Zoos typically are very ‘loud’ (a snake uses vibrations through the earth to ‘hear’).
So if a zoo has thousands of people and heaps of animals stamping their feet and making noise they’re going to stay away.
Smaller animals are likely in enclosures that are well setup to avoid outside animals from entering.
Venomous snakes aren’t typically found in urban areas and zoos are typically in urban areas. Also, the volume of people the amount of paved surfaces, etc. would not likely be attractive to a snake and compel him to venture in.
Snakes have poor eyesight but they feel nearby movement in vibrations from the air and the ground.
Snakes prefer quiet, unbothered places.
They can feel how big the elephants foot is and instinct tells them to move away. So they do. They really don’t want to die like that way. Their biggest worry is from birds of prey like hawks or owls swooping down to grab them for dinner.
And the biggest problem for zoo keepers are rats. Rats like to eat animal poop. They carry diseases and deadly germs.
That’s the biggest problem.
They unfortunately can’t provide complete protection from snakes. A zoo in southern QLD, Australia, had a maned wolf die from being bitten by a brown snake. This is a rural zoo.
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