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Wild Kratts

Canadian educational television series from the Kratt brothers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Wild Kratts is a Canadian educational children's television series that uses a hybrid of live action and animation. The series was created by the Kratt brothers, zoologists Chris and Martin, and produced by The Kratt Brothers Company and 9 Story Media Group, with it airing by TVOKids in Canada, and PBS Kids in the United States. The show's aim is to educate children about species, biology, zoology, and ecology, and how small actions can have a big impact. It has ties to the Kratts' previous shows, Kratts' Creatures and Zoboomafoo, and features several characters from the latter.

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The public source identifies “Wild Kratts” as canadian educational television series from the Kratt brothers. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wild, Kratts and Canadian.

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This entry incorporates text from Wild Kratts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.