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

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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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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.

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