What do you guys thik about housing a burm and a blood together?

The Toledo Zoo has some lovely exhibits, some with multi-species that seem quite appropriate. They do however house a large burm and a large retic together. Their "snake show" which we all were excited about and stayed hours to see...was a cornsnake! Yep, that's it...one little cornsnake they showed around (whooopdeeedoo lookie kids it's a cornsnake!!!!!). Needless to say even my 5 year old was majorily unimpressed with the snake show we'd promised him LOL.

They do have some lovely snakes on exhibit there though and some gorgeous naturalistic exhibits. Their gaboon viper is stunning as well as a number of other hots. All the snakes seem very well cared for. Other than the burm/retic being housed together, I'd say the Toledo Zoo does a pretty nice job with their snakes.

I know here in Washington DC for years and years as I was growing up the zoo had two HUGE retics living in the same HUGE enclosure. ( which was bigger than my whole house ) They seemed to do fine.

I would think National Zoos as oppose to private zoo's ie Long Island would be more educated and under more scurtiny than your average zoo. I mean most have very educated people who have spent their life learning and researching these types of things. I know some of the reptile staff at the zoo here as my father worked there for over ten years and they are highly educated professionals who would never sacrifice the proper care of the reps due to space shotages. Maybe they know something we don't.

LOL Franky, I know how you feel! A similar thing happened at London Zoo when I asked if there were any oppurtunities to see any of the snakes without the glass in the way, they told me to come back in an hour. I came back in an hours time and they let me stroke a pretty small corn snake. Seriously though, they wouldn't even let me hold it even when I told them that I'd looked after a much bigger corn (and a boa constrictor -allbeit a one-year-old one) over the summer and had somehow managed to pluck up the courage to handle such beasts. I was expecting to maybe be greated by a burm or at least one of the large female bps!