Peterborough’s Riverview Park and Zoo had some famous visitors on Tuesday (June 13), when the Kratt brothers visited to film an episode of their show Wild Kratts that will feature the zoo’s Bactrian camels.
The zoo posted a couple of photos from the visit on its Facebook page on Wednesday, where the post has garnered more than 1,200 reactions and hundreds of shares in only seven hours.
Martin and Chris Kratt are American zoologists, actors, directors, producers, and educational nature show hosts. They have produced five TV series, including Kratts’ Creatures and Zoboomafoo, aiming to educate children about species, biology, zoology, and ecology.
We had some exciting visitors at the Park and Zoo yesterday! Martin and Chris Kratt (@thekrattbrothers) were onsite to…
Posted by Riverview Park & Zoo on Wednesday, June 14, 2023
The Kratt brothers are best known for the cartoon versions of themselves they voice in their Peabody Award-nominated series Wild Kratts, now in its seventh season. Airing in 32 countries, the show is available on PBS Kids in the U.S. and on TVOKids in Canada.
Each Wild Kratts episode begins and ends with a live-action segment of the Kratt brothers describing the characteristics and capabilities of a particular species of animal — which they call its “creature powers” — before seguing into the episode by asking viewers to imagine having the powers of the animal.
The episode then transitions to the animated segment, where the brothers go on expeditions to study animals in the wild.
“It’s our longest-running series by far and I think it has the broadest reach of any of our shows,” says Martin in an interview with Victoria Davis for the Animation World Network.
“The kids we were making Kratts’ Creatures and Zaboomafoo for, it’s their kids who are watching Wild Kratts. This all started because we wanted to introduce kids to amazing animals and, hopefully, through that, inspire them to help save endangered species when they grow up.”
Stay tuned for a future episode of Wild Kratts to discover the “creature powers” of the Riverview Park and Zoo’s Bactrian camels.
VIDEO: “Creature Powers – Wild Kratts
