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Man On a Mission

By Colin Moore
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, August 27, 2009

When Stephen LeBlanc was 9 years old, he did something that set the course of his whole life: He went on a trip with his father to the St. Louis Zoo to see the famous lowland gorillas. PHOTO GALLERY Launch Gallery LeBlanc visited the gorilla house, but more importantly, he unexpectedly met Marlin Perkins, the zoo director and the affable host of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom television series. "His office was near the gorilla cage and he just struck up a casual conversation with my da ...

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