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          Marlin Perkins began his career with the Saint Louis Zoo in as a sweeper..

          Marlin Perkins

          zoologist who gained fame as the host of a nature program

          Richard Marlin Perkins was born in Carthage, Missouri, on March 28, 1905, the youngest of three sons of Joseph Dudley and Mynta Mae (Miller) Perkins.

          IsHistory: Marlin Perkins began career with @stlzoo in as a sweeper.

        1. He is survived by his three sons and their families, Michael and Lee Ann Perkins of North Shelby County, Marlin and Susan Perkins of Westlake, Ohio, and LTC.
        2. Marlin Perkins began his career with the Saint Louis Zoo in as a sweeper.
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        4. Biography of Dillinger, see Marlin Perkins, Marlin Perkins' Zoo Parade (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., ), pp.

          5. His mother died when he was seven, and he spent the next nine years of his life on an aunt's farm near Pittsburg, Kansas. Already interested in animals by this age, he created his own miniature zoo (mostly snakes, mice, earthworms, and toads) while on the farm, and continued to keep a variety of animals after moving back to Carthage with his father.

          Perkins studied zoology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, but quit in 1926, before earning his degree, and got hired onto the laborer crew at the St.

          Louis Zoological Gardens. Two weeks after being hired, Perkins was placed in charge of the zoo's reptile collection, which at the time consisted of just six animals. Marlin developed the collection and designed cages for a full-scale reptile exhibit which, co