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 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.

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