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Robert Clarence Irwin (born 1 December 2003) is an Australian television personality and photographer who has participated in his parents and Bindi's TV shows.
Early life
Robert Irwin was born on 1 December 2003, the second of two children of Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin. He is of English and Irish ancestry, with abundance of Irish ancestry on his father's side. Both Robert and his sister Bindi Irwin were homeschooled at Australia Zoo.
A controversial incident occurred during a public show on 2 January 2004, when Irwin's father Steve carried Robert, then one month old, in his arm while hand-feeding a chicken carcass to a 3.8-metre (12 ft 6 in) saltwater crocodile. Robert Irwin was close to the crocodile, and comparisons were made in the press to Michael Jackson's dangling his son outside a German hotel window. The incident prompted the Queensland government to change its crocodile-handling laws, banning children and untrained adults from entering crocodile enclosures. When Robert was 2 years old Steve died from his injuries and blood loss in a stingray attack.
Early career
In 2009, Irwin had a cameo appearance in Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove. In 2012, Irwin appeared alongside his mother and sister in a TV series entitled Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors, which earned him a 2013 Logie Award nomination for Most Popular New Male Talent. In 2014 and 2015, Irwin co-hosted a TV series named Wild But True on Discovery Kids Channel. The show was later nominated for an International Emmy Kids Award in the factual category in 2016.
In 2013, Irwin released a series of books, titled Dinosaur Hunter, which he co-authored with Lachlan Creag and Jack Wells.
In 2015, he appeared as a guest on British wildlife series Ten Deadliest Snakes in the episode focused on Australia's venomous snakes. He guided presenter Nigel Marven in the billabong of Australia Zoo to look for a red-bellied black snake.
Irwin was runner-up in the Junior category of the 2016 Australian Geographic Nature Photograper of the Year competition.
On 16 February 2017, Irwin made his late-night television debut when he appeared on The Tonight Show. He presented an African dwarf crocodile, a screaming armadillo, a snake, and a sloth to the host Jimmy Fallon. He came back on 20 April 2017, presenting a scorpion, two baby black bears, two legless lizards, a binturong, and a toucan (more specifically a green aracari).
On Australian Zoo TV, Irwin appears on his own channel.