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Zoo vs Vivarium - What's the difference?

zoo | vivarium |

As nouns the difference between zoo and vivarium

is that zoo is a park where live animals are exhibited while vivarium is a place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.

zoo

English

(wikipedia zoo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A park where live animals are exhibited.
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    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
  • (label) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

    • Derived terms

    * like feeding time at the zoo * morning zoo * particle zoo * petting zoo * zoo format

    Related terms

    * zoo- * zoologist * zoology

    vivarium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals.

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