Terri Irwin
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Terri Irwin AM |
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Terri on a San Francisco morning radio show during a US tour with Steve, 2002.
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Theresa Penelope Raines July 20, 1964 Eugene, Oregon, U.S. |
| Residence | Beerwah, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | American/Australian |
| Occupation | Naturalist, author |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Notable work | The Crocodile Hunter |
| Spouse(s) | Steve Irwin (m. 1992; his death 2006) |
| Children |
Bindi Sue Irwin (b. 1998) Robert Clarence Irwin (b. 2003) |
| Parent(s) | Clarence and Judy Raines |
| Website | www |
Theresa Penelope "Terri" Irwin AM (née Raines; born July 20, 1964) is an American-Australiannaturalist and author, and the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland. She is the widow of naturalist Steve Irwin. Terri Irwin co-starred with her husband on The Crocodile Hunter, their unconventional television nature documentary series and its spin-off series, Croc Files and The Crocodile Hunter Diaries. She has lived in Australia since 1992, when she married Irwin.
Theresa Penelope Raines was born in Eugene, Oregon, the youngest of three daughters of Clarence and Judy Raines. Her family was in the trucking business. During her childhood, her father constantly brought home injured animals from the highways on which his trucks travelled; this eventually instilled in her an ongoing commitment to saving and rehabilitating wild animals. While working in the family business in 1986, she started a rehabilitation facility called "Cougar Country" to re-educate and release predator mammals such as foxes, raccoons, bears, bobcats, and cougars back into the wild. Soon she was handling 300 animals each year.
Irwin joined an emergency veterinary hospital in 1989 as a veterinary technician to gain further knowledge on the care and support to all kinds of animals. Her life was very busy, as she was still helping her father run the family business, rehabilitating animals through her "Cougar Country", and working at the vet hospital. In addition, she had fifteen cats of her own, several birds and a dog.
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