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Stephen Robert Irwin February 22, — September 4, , known simply as Steve Irwin and nicknamed " The Crocodile Hunter ," was an iconic Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. He achieved world-wide fame from the television program The Crocodile Hunter , an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin.

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Together, they also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents in Beerwah, Queensland. Crocodile Hunter was broadcast in countries in , with as many as million viewers. Irwin's enthusiastic, on-camera style, his earthy Australian accent, signature khaki shorts, and signature phrase, "Crikey! An avid promoter for Australian tourism, Irwin developed Australia Zoo into Queensland's biggest tourist destination in A passionate conservationist, he was especially concerned with endangered species and deforestation.

Charitable organizations with which he was associated included Wildlife Warriors Worldwide and International Crocodile Rescue. Irwin died in after his chest was fatally pierced by a stingray barb while filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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News of his death caused worldwide shock and widespread memorials. Born on his mother's birthday to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Irwin moved with his parents as a child to Queensland in He described his father as a wildlife expert interested in herpetology , the branch of zoology dealing with the study of reptiles and amphibians , while his mother was a wildlife rehabilitator.

After moving to Queensland, Bob and Lyn Irwin started the small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where their son, Steve, grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles. As a boy, Irwin took part in daily animal feeding, as well as care and maintenance activities. On his sixth birthday he was given a foot scrub python.

He began handling and wrestling crocodiles at the age of nine.