Television star Terri Irwin and her children Bindi and Robert have launched a new range of their Australia Zoo toys in New York.
Terri Irwin, whose husband Steve was killed by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary, spoke about her children's experience of snake bites during the launch.
Speaking about her four-year-old son Robert, she said: "He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit."
"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,' so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually let him play with venomous snakes," she said.
She also revealed that her nine-year-old daughter Bindi was first bitten by a snake when she was just 18 months old.
Bindi said of the toy launch: "It's every little girl's dream to have an exact lookalike doll. It's amazing."
