Jim Fowler is a professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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-winning television show Mutual of Omaha

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's Wild Kingdom

Wild Kingdom

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.

Fowler first served as the co-host of Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins

Marlin Perkins

Richard Marlin Perkins was a zoologist best known as a host of the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985.-Biography:...

, and then became the main host in 1986. While Fowler was serving as host of Wild Kingdom, he received four separate Emmy awards and an endorsement by the National PTA

Parent-Teacher Association

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 for family viewing.

Fowler was the official wildlife correspondent for NBC

NBC

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's The Today Show since 1988 and also regularly seen on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

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, making forty appearances in total as he brought various wildlife animals on the show.

In 1997, Fowler joined Discovery Communication's

Discovery Channel

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 Animal Planet

Animal Planet

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as a wildlife expert and later launched the television program Jim Fowler's Life in the Wild in 2000.

Fowler also made an appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show (Seinfeld episode)

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" episode of Seinfeld

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, where he was a "guest" on Kramer

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's "talk show

Talk show

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", asking "Where are the cameras?"

• In 1991, Earlham College
  Earlham College
  Earlham College is a liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 by Quakers and has approximately 1,200 students.The president is John David Dawson...
  
   recognized Fowler for his distinguished career with an Outstanding Alumni Award.
• In 1995, the Global Communications for Conservation (GCC) organization presented Fowler with the 1995 Safari Planet Earth award for his "outstanding achievements in caring for our planet".