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You know, from what I understand, getting a stingray barb through the chest amounts to a total freak accident. It's not only uncommon, but I think there are only 2 other recorded cases of fatalities from stingrays (and I mean EVER)

It's very sad, he did so much for animal conservation, and he really really cared. I remember a story of him crying when a croc he had brought into his Zoo, died.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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It's too bad, really. He was a great conservationist and a hell of an entertainer. A lot of people will lambast him for taking unreasonable risks but the fact that he did what he did for so long only to be lost to what amounts to a freak accident shows that he did in fact know what he was doing. He will be missed by millions.

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Did you know that most of the money he made from his show and other ventures, he used to by huge tracts of land to create animal preserves and migration paths, etc.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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Originally posted by WillyTrombone:
yeah, on don't think Treadwell was really playing with a full deck. I definately wouldn't mention him alongside Steve Irwin.

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Agreed. At least Irwin knew what he was doing whereas a lot of Treadwell did / said was, well, not commonly agreed upon as being in the best interests of the bears. I just get reminded of him because some people let their love of animals cloud their judgement. To be fair to Irwin he was killed by a very passive animal from what I can tell. It's like a guy who plays in the traffic every day then trips over his sons toy car and dies.

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Ya gotta wonder though, if he would of kept the barb in instead of ripping it out (thus casuing more tearing/blood loss) would he still be alive today?

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