Kratt Brothers
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The Kratt Brothers are Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt.
Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt are a team of brother zoologists. They are involved in many wildlife-related ventures, including the production of the popular television shows Kratts' Creatures, Zoboomafoo, and Be the Creature.
Chris Kratt (Creator/Executive Producer/Star) is a longtime real life "creature adventurer" who has been involved with wildlife and animals all his life. He is the co-founder of the Earth Creatures company and co-star and co-host of Kratts' Creatures and Zoboomafoo. With his brother, Martin, Chris founded the Kratt Brothers' Creature Heroes, a nonprofit society dedicated to empowering children to help the wild animals they love. He also has co-written, with Martin, eight children's wildlife books, which include To Be a Chimpanzee and Going Baboony. In 1990 he worked as an intern at the Conservation International in Washington, D.C., and a year later founded the Carleton Organization for Biodiversity, a group dedicated to increasing public awareness of conservation issues and celebrating the creature world. Chris received a B.S. in biology form Carleton College and is a Richter Fellow. He has conducted several field studies in ecology and ecological evolution funded by grants from the Explorers Club and the National Science Foundation. He also received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which he has used to develop wildlife documentaries for children.
Martin Kratt (Creator/Executive Producer/Star) is a innovative wildlife filmmaker, zoologist, and real-life "creature adventurer" dedicated to teaching people about wild creatures and working for the preservation of endangered species. In 1990, Martin and his brother, Chris, founded The Earth Creature Company, which specializes in wildlife entertainment. Prior to co-creating and co-hosting Zoboomafoo and Kratts' Creatures, the critically acclaimed children's wildlife series that began airing on PBS in 1995, Martin and his brother had written, produced, filmed, hosted and distributed seven award winning nature series documentaries and 12 "Earth Creatures Reports" for TBS's Real News for Kids. They also produced segments for Nickelodeon's Video Pen Pals Show. Martin has co-authored, with Chris, eight wildlife books for children (including Creatures in Crisis and Where're the Bears?), published by Scholastic, Inc. In September 1998, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt presented the Kratt Brothers with an award of appreciation for their ongoing commitment and public service on behalf of conversation and environmental education. A graduate of Duke University, where he received a B.S. in zoology, Martin was awarded the Richard H. Jenerette Fellowship to the University of North Carolina MBA program. He has been involved in several field projects relating to wildlife and completed a training program in breeding endangered species in captivity at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust in England.
