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Crocodile Hunter’s 4-year-old son not fazed by 1st snake bite

Irwin Toys

NEW YORK – Like father, like son?\nThe 4-year-old son of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin wasn’t at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, his mother said.\n“He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit,” Irwin’s widow, Terri, said Monday at an appearance at FAO Schwarz with her two children to promote a new line of toys.\n“He said, ‘I hope it wasn’t venomous,’ so I assured Robert I wouldn’t actually let him play with venomous snakes,” she added.\nTerri Irwin said the couple’s 9-year-old daughter, Bindi, was first bitten by a snake when she was 18 months old.\nThe girl, who is featured in the Discovery Kids Channel show “Bindi the Jungle Girl,” posed for cameras with a new action figure in her likeness.\n“It’s every little girl’s dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It’s amazing,” said Bindi, who was signing action figure toys of her late father.\nSteve Irwin, known through his nature TV series as a wrangler of crocodiles and snakes, died in 2006 from a stingray’s barbed tail during an underwater documentary shoot. He was 44.

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