The baby moose was stuck in the mud at the edge of Watts Lake in Alberta; Marlin Perkins was nosing his shiny red canoe through the cattails and saw the problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck — Perkins, in ...

Marlin Perkins was struggling to keep his head out of the murky swamp water as an enormous snake tried to pull him under. He had survived run-ins with polar bears, wildebeests and hyenas, but this ...