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Carol Perkins
12:46 pm
Thu October 25, 2012

Carol Perkins, Conservationist And Humanitarian, Dies At 95

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Carol Perkins while on safari in East Africa In the early 1980s. Perkins has died at the age of 95.
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Updated 5:52 p.m.

Carol Perkins, a conservationist and humanitarian and the widow of famed zoologist Marlin Perkins, has died.

The Saint Louis Zoo says Carol Perkins died Saturday at her home in Clayton, Mo. She was 95 and had been in declining health.

Marlin Perkins was the director of the Saint Louis Zoo who gained international fame after becoming host of television's "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" in 1962. The program aired for 26 years until his death in 1986.

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Chimpanzee Research
6:00 am
Mon October 15, 2012

Life Of Chimp Research And 'Adventure' For Midwestern Scientific Duo

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A chimpanzee sounds its call in the Goualougo Triangle - the site of an intensive conservation project which researchers Crickette Sanz and David Morgan founded.
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The ease with which this female and infant chimpanzee move through the forest canopy is deceiving - they're more than 130 feet above the ground.
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For more than a decade, Washington University anthropologist Crickette Sanz and Lincoln Park Zoo research conservationist David Morgan have lived and worked in a remote stretch of forest in Africa’s Congo Basin, studying chimpanzees and gorillas.

Together with local Congolese, they founded the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, whose mission is to study and protect great apes and their habitat.

Sanz and Morgan are giving a talk about their work tonight at the St. Louis Zoo — they spoke with St. Louis Public Radio's Véronique LaCapra.

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