Eli5- how do zoos protect their other animals from local venomous snakes?

Question

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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Answer 1

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.