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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Nice obituary ... No-ones charity or conservation work should be or was criticized. His ratings driven "surprise critters! I'm here to introduce trauma into your life and endanger my own" tv show sucked and I thought he was an idiot!
Now he's dead from dropping in on a huge fucking stingray!
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Truth is, depending on the species, there is an element of risk in any wildlife scenario L-Pink. It's not often, but accidents to happen and folks who are familiar with handling species are not, least normally, at great risk.
A walk thru a rainforest or jungle can be equally dangerous on occasion - suppose that's why it's called the jungle
One thing that is totally awesome is to have a guide or expert take you thru a rainforest - amazing!! You will see things that you otherwise may never have noticed. The guy I mentioned above is good at this - in his spare time he takes groups of vets into a rainforest for a week and teaches them stuff.
Some local rainforests can be 3000-4000 square miles - lose direction in there and fat chance you will come out alive. With the height of trees and the forest canopy it's hard to tell direction - and a few folks have never been seen again.
We went with him once and that was "something else" - he always led, part of the "rules" (mainly to counter anything dangerous ahead). Some stuff from that trip - we walked by a fer de lance snake curled up (very venomous) and never noticed till he turned back and pointed it out. There are small frogs, prob only half inch in size and colorful - but touch em and you get the venom. There are plenty tree snakes of various kinds, but you'd never notice them unless they were pointed out (they blend in with the branches of trees). Walking thru a rainforest has never been so cool
On a separate occasion - we got back to the car and found a 10 foot boa under it. He was harmless, just had to pull him out - but amazing creature with a skin you'd have to see to believe, and very rare even for that area - something that needs preserved.
Anything to do with nature can be dangerous - most of it is not, but the risk is always there and a guy like Steve Irwin knew this pretty well.