Would you hang out with a giant tarantula on your chest? Yeah, neither would I. And it’s likely that most people wouldn’t. That’s why Twitter user Zeke TF called out someone in a picture who had one of the giant hairy beasts crawling on her chest.
But that was before he realized who she was.
“I really was like smh white people are so stupid until I saw her last name…carry on with ur activities, be safe, we love you,” he wrote.
Now, his comment could be construed as borderline racist, but he says it wasn’t meant in that way and just meant to be funny.
“It’s all love my bad if that hurt u,” he wrote. “LOL I love white people my best friend is white.”
The reason he gave the woman in the photo a pass is that she is none other than Bindi Irwin.
The daughter of the late television host, conservationist, and zookeeper Steve Irwin a.k.a. The Crocodile Hunter. The 19-year-old has followed in her father’s footsteps just like her brother Robert.
She appeared on her father’s show when she was as young as 6-months-old when she rode on a crocodile’s back. Now Bindi is an actress, TV personality, conservationist, fitness instructor, Dancing With The Stars winner, singer, and dancer, according to Wikipedia.
I mean, what doesn’t this woman do?!
She lives and works at Australia Zoo, which was founded and owned by her family since 1970.
“I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that,” she told E! News, according to Bored Panda.“It took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn’t just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.”
Her goal is to keep her father’s legacy alive.
“We want to make sure that his message of wildlife and conservation continues,” she said. “Because he was the world’s greatest conservationist and we never want that message to die.”
And Bindi is doing just that.
Her social media accounts are filled with photos and videos of her promoting the welfare of animals.
“I’m so thankful we were able to help these beautiful little sea turtles to the water. Maybe if we all work together we can start to make a positive change in the declining turtle population. It’s such a special feeling to watch them reach the and swim away,” she wrote in one post.
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Her inspiration is her father’s dedication to conservation.
“My dad. My superhero. I promise to do my best to make you proud and ensure your legacy lives on forever,” she wrote in a Twitter post.
She hopes that others will too be inspired to care for animals the way her father did.
“I remember he [dad] gave me a piece of advice that has stuck with me forever. If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you’re a lot better off. When [Irwin] was working with venomous snakes or cheetahs, he just treated them in a [certain] way,” she said. “It was never trying to overpower them or anything like that. He was just loving them”
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