{"id":570327,"date":"2026-05-07T02:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570327\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:49:10","slug":"robert-irwin-had-near-death-experience-with-pet-crocodile-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570327\/","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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":570328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[98427,8785,186840,183800,6494,192301,192300,11237,61805,2068,183803,6487,131346,90,162949,192302,1671,190273,640,217,186994,183798,192299,397,56,184470,54,55,192303,4407],"class_list":["post-570327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-antonin-kinsky","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-bestpix","tag-club-soccer","tag-color-image","tag-eight-finals","tag-first-leg","tag-horizontal","tag-julian-alvarez","tag-madrid","tag-match-sport","tag-photography","tag-sadness","tag-science","tag-scoring","tag-scoring-a-goal","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-player","tag-spain","tag-sport","tag-sports-team","tag-stadium","tag-tottenham-hotspur-f-c","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uk","tag-union-of-european-football-associations","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wanda-metropolitano","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}