Oh No!!!!! Steve Irwin Died
Steve Irwin is dead. I was not a fan of his TV-sensational antics, but admired his love of animals. I'm not surprised that an animal killed him -- a stingray. I've been swimming in the Virgin Islands with stingrays that were four feet across... The locals said "Just ignore them." One does not provoke a stingray. There is not time to do that. They
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By Ninemsn Staff Writers
Monday 04 September 2006, 16:00 AEST
Steve Irwin was born in 1962 to parents Bob and Lyn, two wildlife lovers who would raise their son with similar values.
Brought up in the grounds of a reptile park managed by his parents, Steve wrestled his first crocodile at age nine, under the watchful eye of his father.
The park became the Australia Zoo in 1973 and it was here, and throughout north Queensland, that this boy from Melbourne cut his teeth as a croc charmer.
As a young man, Steve wrestled crocodiles as part of a government-funded relocation program for rogue crocodiles that posed a danger to humans - or those that were in danger of being attacked by humans.
Steve was taught to remove the crocs by hand to protect them, a tactic he grew to believe in strongly.
He was against using drugs to subdue crocodiles until the end. He believed drugs were more harmful to the giant reptiles than any human contact, and always handled them by hand.
Steve's crocodile hunter identity was born at ( ... )
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