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Receiving labs are risking the reliability of subsequent experiments — and perhaps even the health of their vivaria.

From Nature • Jun. 9, 2015

Hundreds of jars and vials, vivaria and insectaries, microscopes, guns, and cameras, with all their details and mysterious inner workings, left no table vacant.

From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William

Tigellinus emptied the vivaria of all Italian cities, not excepting the smaller ones.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

Others swore by the gods that wild beasts had been let out of all the vivaria at Bronzebeard's command.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

The animals, usually kept in different vivaria, or dens, were now, for the greater entertainment of the visitors, placed in one, but equally indeed divided from each other by strong cages protected by iron bars.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron