At nine, his father, a naturalist who had started a reptile park on the Queensland coast, taught him to stalk crocs at night and lug them out of the water.

九岁时，他的父亲，一位在昆士兰海岸开设爬行动物公园的博物学家，教他在夜间跟踪鳄鱼并把它们拖出水面。