{"id":12065,"date":"2025-09-12T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/12065\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:21:10","slug":"australia-tears-into-us-influencer-mike-holston-over-crocodile-grabbing-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/12065\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia tears into US influencer Mike Holston over crocodile-grabbing videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Australian authorities are investigating an American influencer who filmed himself wrestling wild crocodiles in Queensland, condemning the \u201cextremely dangerous and illegal\u201d activity.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a series of videos on his Instagram, bare-chested Mike Holston, who goes by \u201ctherealtarzann\u201d online, tussles with saltwater and freshwater crocodiles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In one post, he dives into the water, emerging holding the crocodile by its throat with blood streaming from his elbow.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe got a hold of me, but I got a hold of him,\u201d Holston says.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In another, Holston jumps off a boat and into a bushy waterway in pursuit of a crocodile, which he then wrestles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Holston has said the videos, which have amassed millions of views, were for \u201ceducational purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian authorities are investigating an American influencer who filmed himself wrestling wild crocodiles in Queensland, condemning the \u201cextremely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[12780,972,12776,12787,12783,12775,85,1114,46,12777,12784,12782,12778,141,12781,12786,12779,386,12785],"class_list":{"0":"post-12065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-american-influencer","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bob-irwin","11":"tag-croc-country","12":"tag-david-crisafulli","13":"tag-freshwater-crocodiles","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-instagram","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-mike-holston","18":"tag-queensland","19":"tag-saltwater-crocodile","20":"tag-saltwater-crocodiles","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-steve-irwin","23":"tag-us-influencer","24":"tag-wild-crocodiles","25":"tag-wildlife","26":"tag-wombat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}