Steve Irwin is the famed Australian zookeeper and naturalist known for having a tenderness and understanding with all sorts of animals, from birds to crocodiles, that endeared him with his audience and let him teach many people around the world about the beauties and wonders of the natural kingdom. Sadly, he passed away when just 44 years old because of a stingray wound to the heart.
His daughter, Bindi, has since spoken out about her father and his love of all creatures, as she did in a recent Instagram post around a month after the anniversary of his 2006 death, showing a video of him with a pair of kookaburras birds.
In the clip, Irwin bikes up to the pair of exotic birds and separates them, as they were fighting. Jokingly taking to them, he asks what was “going on” between then, then goes on to declare that a “kookaburra fight” is underway.
He then grabs both, holds them next to each other, and says he wants peace at his zoo. He says, as the kookaburras fight at each other and grab each other by the beaks, “Now stop it. You guys need to make up. You be friends now.” Captioning the clip, Bindi said, “This #flashback makes my heart happy. Dad’s kindness and love for all species will live on forever.”
Here is the heartwarming video:
In another post, Bindi shared a video of her daughter Grace walking up to a wall with a picture of her mother and father on it, captioning it by saying, “Tears in my eyes as I share this video. We call my mum and dad, Bunny and Grandpa Crocodile with Grace. She loves them (and koalas) dearly. On every zoo walk she searches for pictures of her grandparents and it is beyond beautiful. ❤️”
Speaking about her daughter in an interview, Bindi said, “I think that every day I wake up and I look at our beautiful daughter and think she is our tiny little miracle and it makes me cry because we were very, very lucky to have her.”
Continuing, she added, “And there was every chance that we wouldn’t have been able to have a little one, so to have our beautiful girl, we are so lucky. And I wish more people would pause before asking, ‘Why aren’t you having more children?‘”
In that same interview she commented on her miraculous recovery from endometriosis, saying, “It’s not like a light switch, but every week I feel like I’m able to do a little bit more. Now I wake up in the morning, and I don’t have to take anti-nausea medicine or have my heat pack. Being able to go for a walk with my daughter and not feeling like I have to throw up in the bushes is just wild to me.” She added, “I feel like I have a second chance at life. I feel brand new.”
Featured image credit: By Richard Giles, aka User rich115 on Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardgiles/78439513/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1136663
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