NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Aquarium of Niagara provided American sign language interpretation for their shark and stingray touch pool, as well as their penguin and sea lion presentations this weekend.
A local nonprofit, Deaf Access Services, partnered with the aquarium to help support the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
Officials said the aquarium’s mission is to inspire people to make a difference for aquatic life, and this was another way they can make the aquarium accessible to more Western New Yorkers.
The aquarium recently announced that a new male Humboldt penguin chick will go by the name Cusco, referring to a city in southwestern Peru, which is in the native environment of the penguin species in the western coast of South America.