The zoo has been working to breed the gharials help grow the worldwide population for over a decade.
says that gharials have an “elongated, narrow snout.” They also said that they have many “interlocking teeth” that line its jaw. They typically live rivers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. Today, they mostly live in Nepal and northern India.
Gharial crocodiles are critically endangered due to loss of their habitat following “human encroachment, unsustainable fishing practices and hunting, according to. They were very close to extinction in the 1970s. Their eggs are collected medicinal properties. “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 obtained by
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