Talk:Herpetarium

Attention Needed
This article says it is supposed to be about herpetariums in general, but the History section is about the herpetarium specifically at the Fort Worth Zoo. Donlammers (talk) 11:43, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I have moved this information to the Fort Worth Zoo article. This is now a really short stub. Donlammers (talk) 05:09, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Just wondering what steps one has to take to start a herpetarium?

Page names/moves/redirects
I had prodded this article and [ophidiarium]] as DICDEFs. instead merged the two with serpentarium, which seems like a reasonable idea since it's the only one of the three with a smidge of extra information beyond a dicdef. Based on the definitions, it seems like serpentarium is better classified as a type of herpetarium (being more specific to not just reptiles/amphibians but snakes/serpents) and thus the latter the article for which it makes most sense to keep. A confusing distinction seems to be that herpetarium is most often (but not always) used to talk about a structure inside a more general purpose zoo while serpentarium (probably because it's flashier) is more often used for stand-alone reptile zoos. The names themselves don't seem to maintain that distinction, though. --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 21:18, 7 November 2014 (UTC)