Tonight in 1963 — Mutual of Omaha's WILD KINGDOM debuted on NBC.

Zoologist Marlin Perkins hosted the nature series for 22 years.

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Tonight in 1963 — Mutual of Omaha's #WildKingdom debuted on NBC.

Zoologist #MarlinPerkins hosted the nature series for 22 years!

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My wife spotted a White-breasted Nuthatch on our feeding ring this morning. He's a quick little fellow so it was hard to get a decent shot of him. This is the best one.

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Marlin Perkins of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” fame describes his search for the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, in the Himalayas with Sir Edmund Hillary…as they got sidetracked while working on a new feline distemper vaccine.

Read and listen on Haint.Blue at https://www.haint.blue/post/we-got-the-beast-marlin-perkins-cures-cats-and-searches-for-snowmen

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We Got The Beast: Marlin Perkins Cures Cats and Searches for Snowmen

Norden Laboratories - Vinyl 7” - 33 1/3 rpm - 1961 Tracklist A – Does The Abominable Snowman Exist?* B – The Facts About Felocine Essentially a commercial for Norden Laboratories’ new “one-CC, one-dose tissue culture feline distemper vaccine,” starring Marlin Perkins of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” fame. Why are we even discussing this? The vaccine was developed, so we’re told, by isolating the virus in a Himalayan snow leopard, which naturally leads into discussion of Perkins’ infamous trip

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