Kratts' Creatures
Kratts' Creatures is a half-hour children's television series that originally ran on PTV during the summer of 1996. 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 and Ttark, an animated anthropomorphic dinosaur. The show ran for one season on PTV from June 3, 1996 to August 9, 1996, with 50 episodes, with reruns continuing to air until June 9, 2000. Due to its popularity, the show inspired an unofficial spin off, Zoboomafoo, also created by the Kratts, which premiered on January 25, 1999.
The show has developed a cult following and is widely known as the “Canadian Friends”, with Chris and Martin fulfilling the Monica and Rachel roles, respectively.
Cast
- The Kratt Brothers: Two self-proclaimed "creature adventurers" who explore the creature world.
- *Chris Kratt: The younger brother. In N. America and Africa, Chris usually wears green while in Central America and Australia, he usually wears red.
- *Martin Kratt: The older brother. In N. America, Africa and Australia, Martin usually wears blue while in Central America, he usually wears white.
- Allison "Al" Baldwin : 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 : A blue, dinosaur-like creature appearing on monitors throughout the Creature Club, the Kratts' 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 He claims to know many facts about animals but many of these facts are out of date since he "became extinct" millions of years ago.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.
Featured Segments
- A Chris and Martin Kratt Scientific Study
- A Kratt Brothers Scientific Experiment
- Allison's Animals
- Salad or Creature
- Stupid Things Not To Do With Animals
Episode list
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
- Heavyweights of Africa / Wings
- Heavyweights of Africa / Around Africa in Eight Hours
- Gator Glades / Sharks
- Rainforests: Under the Canopy / Parched and Thirsty in the Outback
- Behind the Scenes
Featured animals
Invertebrates
Insects
- Acacia ant
- Antlion
- Bee
- Black fly
- Black garden ant
- Cabbage butterfly
- Cecropia moth
- Colorado potato beetle
- Dragonfly
- Dung beetle
- Firefly
- Hercules beetle
- Housefly
- Larva
- Leafcutter ant
- Madagascar hissing cockroach
- Maggot
- Mantis
- Monarch caterpillar/butterfly
- Mosquito
- Rhinoceros beetle
- Satyr butterfly
- Stick insect/walking stick
- Termite
- Viceroy butterfly
- Wasp
Arachnids
- Baboon spider
- Emperor scorpion
- Fishing spider
- Solifugid
- Tarantula
- Tick
- Whip scorpion
Myriapods
- Millipede
- Sonoran centipede
Crustaceans
- Blue crab
- Crayfish
- Fiddler crab
- Ghost crab
- Hermit crab
- Painted crayfish
- Spiny lobster
Molluscs
- Clam
Others
- Ascidian
- Brain coral
- Crown-of-thorns starfish
- Earthworm
- Giant jellyfish
- Gorgonian coral
- Hydrozoa
- Jellyfish
- Mushroom coral
- Mussel
- Nudibranch
- Octopus
- Plate coral
- Polyp
- Protozoa
- Sea anemone
- Sea cucumber
- Sea urchin
- Sea whip
- Slug
- Snail
- Sponge
- Squid
- Staghorn coral
Vertebrates
Fish
- Angelfish
- Barracuda
- Blacktip shark
- Butterflyfish
- Caribbean reef shark
- Caribbean sharp-nosed shark
- Catshark
- Chromis
- Cleaner fish
- Clownfish
- Damselfish
- Eagle ray
- Emperor fish
- Epaulette shark
- Fairy basslet
- Grey nurse shark
- Grouper
- Hammerhead shark
- Hussar
- Lemon shark
- Lionfish
- Manta ray
- Moray eel
- Needlefish
- Nurse shark
- Parrotfish
- Pufferfish
- Remora
- Seahorse
- Stingray
- Tasselled Wobegon
- Tiger shark
- Trumpetfish
- Whaler
- Whitetip reef shark
- Whitetip reef shark
Amphibians
- African bullfrog
- American toad
- Cane toad
- Eastern newt
- Hellbender
- Poison arrow frog
- Salamander
- Siren
- Tadpole
- Water holding frog
Reptile
- Alligator snapping turtle
- Allosaurus
- American alligator
- American crocodile
- Archaeopteryx
- Archosaur
- Black rock skink
- Boa constrictor
- Box turtle
- Burmese python
- Chameleon
- Ctenosaur
- Diamondback terrapin
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
- Egg-eating snake
- Goanna
- Great desert skink
- Kemp's ridley sea turtle
- Leopard tortoise
- Megalania
- Nile crocodile
- Olive ridley sea turtle
- Painted turtle
- Pterosaur
- Rat snake
- Red-eared slider
- Saltwater crocodile
- Shingleback Skink
- Softshell turtle
- Sphenosuchus
- Stokes's skink
- Thorny devil
- Tiger snake
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Water moccasin
Birds
- American flamingo
- American robin
- Arctic tern
- Australian king parrot
- Bald eagle
- Black noddy
- Black vulture
- Blackbird
- Black-crowned night heron
- Blue fairy penguin
- Blue jay
- Brush turkey
- Buffalo weaver
- Canada goose
- Cassowary
- Cattle egret
- Cormorant
- Egyptian goose
- Elegant parrot
- Emu
- Finch
- Frigatebird
- Golden eagle
- Grackle
- Great blue heron
- Great egret
- Great horned owl
- Green heron
- Griffon vulture
- Gull
- Harris's hawk
- Hummingbird
- Kookaburra
- Lappet-faced vulture
- Little penguin
- Loon
- Mallard duck
- Marabou stork
- Martial eagle
- Merganser
- Motmot
- Northern goshawk
- Ostrich
- Oxpecker
- Pelican
- Peregrine falcon
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Raven
- Red-billed hornbill
- Red-tailed hawk
- Ring-billed gull
- Rosella
- Scarlet macaw
- Secretarybird
- Shrike
- Sparrow
- Starling
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Tern
- Toucan
- Tricolored heron
- Tundra swan
- Turkey vulture
- Weaver birds
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- White pelican
- Wild turkey
- Wood stork
Mammals
- Aardvark
- Aardwolf
- Aegyptopithecus
- Afghan Hound
- African buffalo
- African bush elephant
- African wild dog
- Agile gibbon
- American bison
- American black bear
- American mastodon
- Arctic fox
- Asian elephant
- Australian feral camel
- Baird's tapir
- Banded mongoose
- Bandicoot
- Bengal tiger
- Bent-wing bat
- Bighorn sheep
- Black flying fox
- Black rhinoceros
- Black wildebeest
- Black-backed jackal
- Bloodhound
- Bobcat
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Brown bear
- Brumby
- Brushtail possum
- Canada lynx
- Caribou
- Cave bear
- Chacma baboon
- Cheetah
- Chihuahua
- Chincoteague Pony
- Chipmunk
- Coati
- Common chimpanzee
- Common wildebeest
- Condylarth
- Cougar
- Coyote
- Deinotherium
- Delmarva fox squirrel
- Dingo
- Diprotodon
- Donkey
- Dromedary camel
- Dryopithecus
- Duiker
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Echidna
- Elephant shrew
- Elk
- Eritreum
- European Rabbit
- Feral goat
- Fisher
- Florida panther
- Flying fox
- Genet
- Ghost bat
- Giant anteater
- Giant otter
- Giraffe
- Gomphothere
- Gomphotherium
- Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
- Gray fox
- Gray wolf
- Great Dane
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Grizzly bear
- Groundhog
- Hippopotamus
- Holstein cattle
- Howler monkey
- Humpback whale
- Husky
- Hyrax
- Impala
- Imperial mammoth
- Indricotherium
- Irish elk
- Jaguar
- Jaguarundi
- Kinkajou
- Koala
- Kodiak bear
- Kowari
- Kudu
- Lar gibbon
- Leopard
- Lion
- Llama
- Long nosed potoroo
- Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo
- Maned sloth
- Margay
- Mastiff bat
- Meerkat
- Megistotherium
- Mink
- Moose
- Mountain gorilla
- Muskrat
- Mutt
- Nine-banded armadillo
- North American porcupine
- North American river otter
- Northern flying squirrel
- Ocelot
- Olive baboon
- Orangutan
- Paca
- Pademelon
- Palaeoloxodon
- Palaeomastodon
- Pembroke Welsh Corgi
- Platypus
- Pliopithecus
- Polar bear
- Procoptodon
- Pronghorn
- Przewalski's wild horse
- Pug
- Pygmy marmoset
- Pygmy possum
- Rabbit
- Raccoon
- Ramapithecus
- Red fox
- Red kangaroo
- Rock-wallaby
- Rottweiler
- Sable antelope
- Sea lion
- Siberian tiger
- Sitka deer
- Smilodon
- Spider monkey
- Spotted dolphin
- Spotted hyena
- Squirrel monkey
- Stegodon
- Straight-tusked elephant
- Striped skunk
- Sugar glider
- Sun bear
- Tamandua
- Tammar wallaby
- Tasmanian devil
- Tasmanian tiger
- Tayra
- Terrier
- Thomson's gazelle
- Tiger quoll
- Topi
- Vampire bat
- Vervet monkey
- Virginia opossum
- Vole
- Water buffalo
- West Indian manatee
- White rhinoceros
- White tiger
- White-headed Capuchin
- White-lipped peccary
- White-tailed deer
- Wombat
- Woolly mammoth
- Woolly rhinoceros
- Zebra