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Steve Irwin At the Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Australia, Steve Irwin gains the attention of a tiger (2005).

Steve Irwin

Australian wildlife conservationist and television personality
Also known as: Stephen Robert Irwin
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Steve Irwin (born February 22, 1962, Essendon, Victoria, Australia—died September 4, 2006, off the coast of Port Douglas, Queensland) was an Australian wildlife conservationist, television personality, and educator who achieved worldwide fame as the exuberant host of The Crocodile Hunter (1992–2006) television series and related documentaries. With frenetic energy and an engaging boyish enthusiasm, Irwin led his viewers on recklessly close encounters with deadly and usually endangered animals, notably crocodiles, in Australia’s Outback and later...

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