zoos housing snakes together

[Pyrate81]

Haha, your Ph.D comment made me laugh. I do know a few herpetologists with Ph.D's who work in a zoo setting. And I can say from my own experience that they did their absolute best to study, provide and understand the animals they were attending to in their field. The real question comes down to this: are inappropriate settings the fault of the Ph.D's or the zoo itself?

I would argue the zoo almost always. I believe that when animals are being housed incorrectly (I am not referencing the coppers and timbers) the blame usually falls on the keepers. But in reality the keepers didn't build those enclosures- at least to my knowledge they didn't. Definitely not the dimensions, anyway. They were hired to take care of the animals already in them.
This is probably obvious information to 99% of everyone, but I wanted to go ahead and reiterate it in case someone runs across this post eons from now, lol.
When I am trying to think critically I usually sticky note all the questions and sub questions in my mind as I read the situation. In this case, the zoo, the herpetologists and care takers are all separate factors.
Anyway, that was my 1 cent, haha. It probably wasn't worth 2 xP

Good points. I'm in a situation where my nature center dictates what the animals are kept in. Which I'm working to improve. I figured a zoo would/should be more willing/able to provide better for their animals. But red tape and budgets and other factors dictate certain things...