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 1996, 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.
