{"id":943325,"date":"2026-05-07T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:42:26","slug":"robert-irwin-had-near-death-experience-with-pet-crocodile-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943325\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin had near-death experience with pet crocodile | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/robert-irwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Irwin<\/a> had a near-death experience with his 14-foot pet crocodile named after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jimmy-fallon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday (4 May), the 22-year-old revealed that he was \u201cdeath-rolled\u201d by his huge pet whilst researching crocodile conservation methods in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI named this crocodile Jimmy Fallon years ago and he&#8217;s now what we call a \u2018Boss croc&#8217; \u2014 he&#8217;s huge,\u201d explained Irwin to the talk show host and creature\u2019s namesake.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he jumped onto the reptile &#8211; a method devised by his late father &#8211; when the animal suddenly rolled over. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I&#8217;m stuck underneath him with my arm hanging out, I&#8217;ve got probably \u2026 700 pounds on top of me, and I&#8217;m just like, \u2018What do I do?&#8217;\u2019 Irwin said he was freed when the crocodile thankfully rolled back onto his belly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin had a near-death experience with his 14-foot pet crocodile named after Jimmy Fallon. Appearing on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[150660,1029,260582,251751,47671,260581,260580,44888,15132,5479,47681,2249,201226,70,87919,252301,10031,252297,104,93,252847,30364,260579,8467,16,252300,15,260583,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-943325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-antonin-kinsky","9":"tag-atletico-madrid","10":"tag-bestpix","11":"tag-club-soccer","12":"tag-color-image","13":"tag-eight-finals","14":"tag-first-leg","15":"tag-horizontal","16":"tag-julian-alvarez","17":"tag-madrid","18":"tag-match-sport","19":"tag-photography","20":"tag-sadness","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-scoring","23":"tag-scoring-a-goal","24":"tag-soccer","25":"tag-soccer-player","26":"tag-spain","27":"tag-sport","28":"tag-sports-team","29":"tag-stadium","30":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","31":"tag-uefa-champions-league","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-union-of-european-football-associations","34":"tag-united-kingdom","35":"tag-wanda-metropolitano","36":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116532173035056150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}