Vicki Constantine Croke

Vicki Constantine Croke has been chronicling animal life for more than two decades--tracking polar bears, Tasmanian devils, and Madagascar's top predator, the fossa. She now covers animal issues for WBUR-FM, Boston's NPR news station and onWBUR's The Wild Life online. Her work there earned a 2013 regional Edward R. Murrow Award. She is the author of The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal and The Modern Ark: The Story of Zoos--Past, Present, and Future. Croke has worked on nature documentaries for Disney and for the A&E channel and anchored The Secret Life of Animals on NECN-TV. She lives in the Boston area.