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Tear Jerker / Crocodile Hunter

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  • Not only Steve's death, but finally after nearly 8 years, we hear the truth of circumstances surrounding Steve's death from a cameraman who was with him at the time.
  • Steve's last words, according to the crew was that the stingray didn't mean to hurt him.
  • Everyone who watched Steve's film work knows about Sui, the Irwin family's beloved Staffordshire bull terrier, but before Sui, Steve met Chili when he was living in the bush, and Chili was his first croc-hunting dog. Steve talked about Chili a bit in the special "The Steve Irwin Story", and you can see him start to cry when he gets to how she died- a hunting accident, caused by a local who tried to shoot the pig she'd caught for Steve to bait his next crocodile trap with. The loss devastated young Steve, and his father came out to the bush to comfort him, dismantle the croc traps, and help give Chili a burial.
    Steve, looking at Chili's grave: "I'll never forget you, Chili Dog... one day we'll hunt together again..."
  • In The Crocodile Hunter episode "Faces in the Forest", Steve has a sweet encounter with an orangutan pregnant with her first baby, where she lets him feel her unborn, nearly full-term child move in her belly. The tears don't hit until later in the episode, when the mother-to-be is found dead. The fact that her death was ruled to be of natural causes (an infection, or pregnancy complications) as opposed to a rogue poacher in the sanctuary or something only lessens the blow a tiny bit.

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