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Stan Brock, RAM Founder - Remembered
by many as the co-star of the television series Wild
Kingdom, Stan Brock grew up with the Wapishana Indians
in the Central Amazon Basin. "We were 25-35 day's
march to the nearest town with no health care,"
reports Stan, who eventually cut the trip to two hours
by becoming a pilot.
Before founding Remote Area
Medical® and coming to Knoxville, TN where he
now lives, Stan Brock spent 15 years as general manager
of the Rupununi Development Company Dadanawa Ranch
(Guyana), the world's largest tropical cattle ranch
(area 4,000 square miles; 40,000 cattle; 2,000 horses;
1,200 sheep), with extensive range management, beef
marketing, and veterinary experience. He was fluent in
Portuguese, Spanish, and Wapishana.
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| Caption: Stan Brock, Founder
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Stan Brock
has a rich background in exploration and discovery -
he was a pioneer Amazon bush-pilot ; a noted authority
on wildlife conservation and management; and an expert
on rainforests and their inhabitants. He became a Research
Associate of the Royal Ontario Museum, Department of
Mammalogy and is the discoverer of the new species of
bat now known to science as Vampyresa brockii, in the
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Known
to millions throughout the world as co-host and associate
producer of NBC's Wild Kingdom, the most popular weekly
wildlife series ever broadcast on American television.
He was director, writer, and narrator of another television
series, Stan Brock's Expedition Danger, and starred in
the motion pictures Forgotten Wilderness, Galyon, The
Indestructable Man, and Escape from Angola. Brock is an
Airline Transport Pilot with Flight Instructor certificates,
a skilled writer on a variety of subjects; published author
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Stan Brock roping cattle |
of
five books in hard-cover and numerous articles in Reader's
Digest and other publications, and a physical fitness
expert.; 1st Cho Dan Black Belt Tae Kwon Do Karate.
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