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What Zoo Animals will you keep in a ''Micro zoo''?

Discussion in 'Speculative Zoo Design and Planning' started by Nikola Chavkosk, 16 Jul 2016.

  1. Batto

    Batto Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    @TDL: since they’re mainly nocturnal, you won’t see much of them during the day. And if you provide them with ample soil to dig through, you might not see much of them during the night, too. ^^ Some of them are picky eaters, quite delicate health-wise, not the friendliest hot snakes and pack some mean neurotoxins. All in all, not your ideal showcase serpentine species, even though they also have their little fanbase, especially among toxicologists.
     
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    Morbid = a fascination with death. If you ever felt fascinated by which snake is more lethal, thats slightly morbid.

    What does every kid want to ask about snakes? Is it poisonous. And that is the appeal to the public. There's no point pretending otherwise. Venomous creatures hold a special fascination for mankind, even herpetologists. ;)

    There is nothing wrong with it. After all its where nearly every herper starts out.
     
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    Batto Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Never felt “fascinated by which snake is more lethal“, and I’ve been keeping snakes, both venomous and not, for some time. Neither have most of the folks I know doing the same. No false pretend there. Maybe you should try to actually meet the people you make incorrect statements about.
    As for poisonous snakes-if it’s not a tiger keelback snake...