This hallway used to have a series of small wall-mounted snake tanks, like many traditional reptile houses. Several years ago they redid it to make just a few very large exhibits like this (floor to ceiling and wider as well). A huge improvement and I wish more reptile houses went this way.
This hallway used to have a series of small wall-mounted snake tanks, like many traditional reptile houses. Several years ago they redid it to make just a few very large exhibits like this (floor to ceiling and wider as well). A huge improvement and I wish more reptile houses went this way.
There are still 8 traditional exhibits as well as the 3 large ones, and it seems as if some reptile houses (Nashville, Audubon, Fort Worth, etc) have begun to create larger, floor-to-ceiling habitats for their reptiles and amphibians.
An excerpt from my 2011 review of Phoenix Zoo:
There is a single room with around 20 terrariums that contain a variety of amphibians, and another shaded pathway that has 8 small reptile terrariums as well as 3 huge terrariums that contain a variety of rattlesnakes. Reptile species list: Madrean alligator lizard, ornate tree lizard, Sonoran mud turtle, chuckwalla, desert tortoise, green ratsnake, gila monster, Sonoran gopher snake, Arizona mountain kingsnake, coachwhip, Arizona black rattlesnake, Grand Canyon rattlesnake, western diamondback rattlesnake, Mojave rattlesnake, speckled rattlesnake, black-tailed rattlesnake and tiger rattlesnake.
