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I saw little wrong with what he did. It seemed crazy, but he'd forgotten more about most of the animals that he worked with than I'll probably ever know. As someone has stated. I'm sure to some people the stuff that many of us do in cars, motorcycles, sports, etc... seems crazy, dumb, and/or dangerous. I guess if someone thinks that about us then that must mean that we are idiots too. Going 125 in a car or on a bike is probably just as dangerous or more than what he did. He's been working with those animals since he was a kid since the zoo was his dads. Until that point, he had never been envenomated by a poisonous animal. I'd say that after working with poisonous creatures that long, for this to have been the first time, it's not luck, he knew and understood the animals pretty darn well. I seem to remember that he's been bitten by crocs a couple of times, but nothing too serious (relatively).

His enthusiasm and love for the wild is a sad thing for the world to lose. Too many people think the rape and pillage of the wild is a good way to get back to nature. Hopefully his enthusiasm was catching and 5 more people dedicated to the study and preservation of animals and nature will spring up in his place.

It's unfortunate too that he's leaving not only a wife, but an 8yo daughter and 3 yo son behind.