The baby moose was stuck in the mud at the edge of Watts Lake in Alberta; Marlin Perkins was nosing his shiny red canoe through the cattails and saw the problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck — Perkins, in ...

Marlin Perkins was struggling to keep his head out of the murky swamp water as an enormous snake tried to pull him under. He had survived run-ins with polar bears, wildebeests and hyenas, but this ...

Whichever decade you grew up in, chances are the phrase “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” evokes nostalgia. The iconic wildlife TV series, originally starring Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler, ran on NBC ...

Marlin Perkins came to the St. Louis Zoo in 1926 to work with the reptile collection. He became curator of the Buffalo Zoo in 1938. As director of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo in 1949, he created the ...