Fort Worth Zoo
A first-ever hearing-impaired themed day will take place at the Fort Worth Zoo on Saturday, September 16.
This event is designed specifically for the Deaf community and will have American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters on hand to interpret zookeeper chats throughout the park.This occasion, titled “Deaf Day” was made possible with the Zoo’s partnership with the Sign Language Interpreting Program at Tarrant County College (TCC), according to a Facebook post.
This event comes mere days after the Zoo revealed the hatching of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. Of the 35 gharial crocodiles living in U.S. zoos, four are in the care of the Fort Worth Zoo including one male and three females. The hatchlings announced last week, were produced from two separate clutches, from two different females, and will introduce a new bloodline into the populations not living in the wild.
"The Fort Worth Zoo is the only institution in the United States to have produced multiple offspring of this critically endangered species," the zoo said in a statement. "The Zoo is incredibly proud to announce this groundbreaking conservation success, quadrupling the number of births to ever take place in the U.S."
Unfortunately, this rare species will not be on display for the upcoming “Deaf Day” event. But on the bright side, there will be plenty of ASL interpreters scattered throughout the Zoo to help out at restaurants, shops, ticket purchases, etc.
There is a discount code available for online ticket purchases. The discount code is deafday23.
