Chris Kratt
Birthday
July 19, 1969
Hometown
Grew up in New Jersey with Martin, two sisters, and a St. Bernard dog. Oh, and a chipmunk that lived in the gutter pipe.
Education
B.A. Biology, Carleton College. Also studied chimp language and tool-using with fellow chimps, Naika, Tess and Sophie. Remember them from the chimpanzee show?
Favorite Outdoor Sport
Canoeing and Kayaking
Goals in Life
To find out all he can about creatures and the creature world. And to finally beat a raccoon in a tree-climbing contest!
Martin Kratt
Birthday
December 23, 1965
Age
He's lived through over 30 generations of short-tailed shrews. They only live for about 1 year!
Hometown
Grew up in New Jersey, where lots of deer, raccoons, opossums, crickets and red-tailed hawks grew up too. Don't believe what you hear about New Jersey. It's not all highways!
Education
B.S. Zoology, Duke University. Completed hands-on, interactive study of animal defenses. Remember the Great Defender's show? He smelled like a skunk for one week after that.
Favorite Outdoor Sport
Scuba Diving
Goals in Life
To meet all his creature neighbors and convince people to be kind to creatures. To find out why there aren't any bears in Africa.
Allison
 At the Creature Club, a funky field research station nestled in the woods outside a North American suburb, 15-year-old Allison Baldwin helps the Kratt brothers find their way around the creature world without getting into too much trouble. Allison uses the Creature Screen, a large video monitor which allows her to see them no matter where they are in the world, to advise the guys in the field.
Allison is played by actress Shannon Duff. Shannon is no 'newbie' to acting or television. Shannon's acting career began on the theater stage as a member of The Oshawa Little Theatre Youth Group, where she appeared in the musicals "Bye, Bye, Birdie" and "Evita." Shannon made her professional debut in The Canadian Stage Company's production of "Once on This Island." Her acting career soon flourished into television where her credits included hosting and reporting for "Global Kids TV" and playing the lead role on Nickelodeon's "Are You Afraid of the Dark." She currently attends Archbishop Denis O'Conner High School in Ajax, Ontario, where she is a junior. Shannon is thrilled to be working on Kratts' Creatures and proud to be a member of the team.
Ttark
 He's many animals all mixed into one... part bird, part reptile, part mammal. Ttark is Allison's wise-cracking, animated cartoon friend and jungle-smart creature consultant. Ttark is as old as the earth itself (he knew the dinosaurs personally!) and could answer most any question about the creature world. No wonder Martin and Chris like to have him around! He knows what it's like to be an animal. So not only can he tell us about the history of the mastodons, he can tell us what it's like to breathe underwater!
Yes, Ttark looks at the creature kingdom differently than we do- not only is he an animal, but he's a cartoon too! He gives us his own stylish "Ttark Art" illustration of how horses evolved from creatures as small as chickens and shows us a cross section of the bighorn's skull to explain how they can butt heads without scrambling their brains.
He's Allison's best friend and advisor. He's always bombarding Allison (and us) with those silly animal sayings ... "colliding camels!, grazing gazelles!" Stay around him for just one day and you might hear him say "only an African Meerkat would say that!"... Ttark is an important member of the creature team; he's always providing new information that sends the adventure spinning off in a new direction.
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