Kratts' Creatures

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Kratts' Creatures is a half-hour children's television series that originally ran on PTV. The first in a series of programs produced by the Kratt Brothers, Chris and Martin Kratt, Kratts' Creatures was made to be the first wildlife show aimed specifically towards young children. It featured the Brothers Kratt as they traveled around the world exploring different animals and their habitats, receiving assistance from their friends Allison Baldwin (played by Shannon Duff) and Ttark, an animated anthropomorphic dinosaur (voiced by Ron Rubin). The show ran for one season on PTV from June 3, 1996 to August 9, 1996, with 50 episodes produced in total. Reruns were made on PBS Kids, continuing until August 17, 2001. Due to its popularity, the show inspired an unofficial spinoff, Zoboomafoo, also created by the Kratts, which premiered on January 25, 1999.

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Cast

• The Kratt Brothers: Two self-proclaimed "creature adventurers" who explore the creature world.
  • Chris Kratt: The younger brother. In North America and Africa, Chris is usually the one wearing green while in Central America and Australia, he usually dones red.
  • Martin Kratt: The older brother. In North America, Africa and Australia, Martin is usually the one wearing blue while in Central America, he typically wears white.
• Allison Baldwin (Shannon Duff): Usually known by her nickname "Al", she is the Kratts' personal agent/assistant. She helps the Kratt Brothers by delivering them information and tracking their movements on her computer, while at the same time learning some things about certain animals that she never heard before.
• Ttark (voiced by Ron Rubin): A blue, dinosaur-like creature appearing on monitors throughout the Creature Club, the Kratts' main base of operations. His name is "Kratt" spelled backwards and his catchphrase is "Abso-tively", which is a mix of "absolutely" and "positively". He claims to know many facts about animals but many of these facts are out of date since he "became extinct" millions of years ago.
• Ken the Hippo-Test Dummy: A crash-test dummy used by the Kratts for their various experiments.

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Segments

• A Kratt Brothers Scientific Experiment
• Salad or Creature
• A Chris and Martin Kratt Scientific Study
• Stupid Things Not To Do With Animals

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Featured animals

Invertebrates

Insects

• Maggot
• Larva
• Antlion
• Rhinoceros beetle
• Mantis
• Madagascar hissing cockroach
• Stick insect/walking stick
• Dragonfly
• Housefly
• Dung beetle
• Bee
• Wasp
• Firefly
• Leafcutter ant
• Termite
• Monarch caterpillar/butterfly
• Viceroy butterfly
• Acacia ant
• Cecropia moth
• Satyr butterfly
• Hercules beetle
• Cabbage butterfly
• Colorado potato beetle
• Mosquito
• Black fly

Arachnids

• Tarantula
• Emperor scorpion
• Whip scorpion
• Solifugid
• Fishing spider
• Baboon spider
• Tick

Arthropods

• Millipede
• Sonoran centipede

Crustaceans

• Ghost crab
• Hermit crab
• Spiny lobster
• Blue crab
• Fiddler crab
• Crayfish

Others

• Jellyfish
• Nudibranch
• Sea cucumber
• Mussel
• Snail
• Slug
• Protozoa
• Octopus
• Sea anemone
• Polyp
• Hydrozoa
• Sea urchin
• Earthworm
• Sponge

Vertebrates

Fish

• Caribbean reef shark
• Nurse shark
• Caribbean sharpnose shark
• Lemon shark
• Blacktip shark
• Tiger shark
• Hammerhead shark
• Whitetip reef shark
• Tasselled wobbegong
• Grey nurse shark
• Catshark
• Whaler
• Manta ray
• Stingray
• Angelfish
• Grouper
• Remora
• Pufferfish
• Moray eel
• Barracuda
• Parrotfish
• Needlefish
• Butterflyfish
• Trumpetfish
• Lionfish
• Seahorse

Amphibian

• Hellbender
• Salamander
• Eastern newt
• Siren
• Tadpole
• American toad
• African bullfrog
• Poison arrow frog
• Cane toad

Reptile

• Nile crocodile
• American alligator
• Saltwater crocodile
• Leopard tortoise
• Chameleon
• Alligator snapping turtle
• Olive ridley sea turtle
• Kemp's ridley sea turtle
• Egg-eating snake
• Water moccasin
• Rat snake
• Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
• Thorny devil
• Goanna
• Painted turtle
• Softshell turtle
• Diamondback terrapin
• Tiger snake
• Skink
• Boa constrictor
• Ctenosaur
• Triceratops (Mentioned)
• Tyrannosaurus (mentioned)
• American crocodile
• Allosaurus (mentioned)
• Burmese python

Bird

• Weaver birds
• Buffalo weaver
• Scarlet macaw
• Little penguin
• Brush turkey
• Oxpecker
• Cattle egret
• Northern goshawk
• Hummingbird
• Ostrich
• Kookaburra
• Australian king parrot
• Sulphur-crested cockatoo
• Rosella
• Rainbow lorikeet
• Elegant parrot
• Loon
• Tricolored heron
• Green heron
• Great blue heron
• American flamingo
• Wedge-tailed eagle
• Wood stork
• Emu
• Cassowary
• Red-billed hornbill
• Tern
• Gull
• Peregrine falcon
• Black-crowned night heron
• Frigatebird
• Black vulture
• Canada goose
• Ring-billed gull
• Blackbird
• American robin
• Mallard duck
• Raven
• Bald eagle
• Blue jay
• Red-tailed hawk
• Great horned owl
• Toucan
• Motmot
• Martial eagle
• Egyptian goose
• Finch
• Starling
• Sparrow
• Grackle

Mammal

• African bush elephant
• White rhinoceros
• Black rhinoceros
• African buffalo
• Lion
• Leopard
• Elephant shrew
• Cheetah
• Platypus
• Bottlenose dolphin
• Bengal tiger
• Siberian tiger
• Flying fox
• American black bear
• Grizzly bear
• American bison
• Spotted dolphin
• Spotted hyena
• Hippopotamus
• Coyote
• Olive baboon
• Chacma baboon
• Common chimpanzee
• Thomson's gazelle
• Impala
• Kudu
• Aardvark
• Mongoose
• Meerkat
• African wild dog
• Giraffe
• Red fox
• Gray wolf
• West Indian manatee
• Moose
• Elk
• Tasmanian devil
• Baird's tapir
• Bighorn sheep
• Arctic fox
• Chipmunk
• Sugar glider
• Northern flying squirrel
• Tamandua
• Jaguar
• Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo
• Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
• Cougar
• Florida panther
• Dromedary camel
• Australian feral camel
• Chincoteague Pony
• North American porcupine
• Striped skunk
• Wombat
• Bandicoot
• Koala
• Echidna
• Red kangaroo
• Pygmy possum
• Tammar wallaby
• Pademelon
• Rock-wallaby
• Eastern grey kangaroo
• Bridled nail-tail wallaby
• Long-nosed potoroo
• Howler monkey
• Hyrax
• Dingo
• Jaguarundi
• Black-backed jackal
• Gray fox
• Bobcat
• Ocelot
• Margay
• Canada lynx
• Giant otter
• Virginia opossum
• Nine-banded armadillo
• Raccoon
• Asian elephant
• Coati
• White-headed capuchin
• Squirrel monkey
• White-tailed deer
• Spider monkey
• Muskrat
• Vole
• Mink
• Sitka deer
• Delmarva fox squirrel
• Rabbit
• Groundhog
• Husky
• Pug
• Mutt
• Pembroke Welsh Corgi
• Rottweiler
• Terrier
• Afghan Hound
• Wildebeest
• Great Dane
• Chihuahua
• Bloodhound
• Tasmanian tiger
• White tiger
• Tiger quoll
• Maned sloth
• Przewalski's horse
• Orangutan
• Agile gibbon
• Lar gibbon
• Mountain gorilla
• Fisher
• North American river otter
• Kinkajou
• Paca
• Tayra
• Smilodon (mentioned)
• White-lipped peccary
• Brushtail possum
• Bent-wing bat
• Ghost bat
• Mastiff bat
• Vampire bat (mentioned)
• Caribou
• Giant anteater
• Sun bear
• Polar bear
• Kodiak bear
• Brown bear
• Pronghorn
• Indricotherium (mentioned)
• Woolly rhinoceros (mentioned)
• Stegodon (mentioned)
• Woolly mammoth (mentioned)
• Straight-tusked elephant (mentioned)
• Eritreum (mentioned)
• Deinotherium (mentioned)
• Gomphothere (mentioned)
• Imperial mammoth (mentioned)
• American mastodon (mentioned)
• Palaeoloxodon (mentioned)
• Palaeomastodon (mentioned)
• Gomphotherium (mentioned)
• Donkey
• Zebra
• Megistotherium (mentioned)
• Cave bear (mentioned)
• Condilar (mentioned)
• Holstein cattle
• Diprotodon (mentioned)
• Procoptodon (mentioned)
• Sea lion
• Aardwolf

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Episode list

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VHS releases

• In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger / Mungu's Revenge
• Ultimate Animals / Big Five, Little Five
• The Great Defenders / Spots and Stripes
• Kickboxing Kangaroos / Koalas or Wombats
• Wild Ponies / Phantom Wolves
• Leopard: Prince of Stealth / Creatures of the Night
• When? / The How Show
• Hyenas are Cool / Three Cool Cats
• Hanging with the Monkeys / Lion, King of Beasts
• Heaviweights of Africa / Wings
• Heaviweights of Africa / Around Africa in Eight Hours
• Gator Glades / Sharks
• Rainforests: Under the Canopy / Parched and Thirsty in the Outback
• Behind the Scenes

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External links

• Kratts' Creatures on IMDb

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