3/19/2021 0 Comments Boa Vs Anaconda
As a kid, I never missed that show Even when I was a kid, I got a kick out of how every time they cornered or trapped some big and dangerous animal, Marlin Perkins narration would always be the same: Now well wait till Stan gets here.Like Jim Fowler, Stan did all the dirty work, but always in bare feet.
![]() Marlin Perkins got started at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, back in the 50s, and gravitated to Mutual of Omaha later. The descriptions make it pretty clear that both men ended up in rather serious trouble for a short time. Stan Brock had so MANY close calls (even came within inches of losing a race with a grizzly bear once, where the finish line was a tree with the right structure to let him fly up the thing without breaking stride) and was so eager to jump into the fray on all other occasions that I honestly dont believe he would have stood there like a bump on a log while Perkins struggled. Of course, YOU know what psychologists say about the reliability of even the most indelible memories after time passes. I was certain that Id read when I was a kid that Stan Brock was a silver-spoon child from Australia who was sent to the U.S. Big difference on both counts, but I was sure I remembered correctly (maybe there IS something about Australia in his background, somewhere along the way). To set up the shot the snake was cooled down so it was hardly moving. Great show but remember film is always edited and animla people are all about slight of hand when it comes to publicity and self promotion. Now, sleight of hand is a whole other topic, probably sometimes justifiedexplained by the ending comment on every episode of Wild Kingdom: All of the scenes in this program, whether actual or created, depict authenticated facts.
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