Reply #6: Well, this isn't exactly one of the happy ones, but

[BlueIris]

it involves that time (I don't remember if it was on an episode of the Crocodile Hunter or on another series or special) he and his team were hunting for crocs and found one that had been shot in the head by someone. Irwin totally freaked and started crying, (and rightly so) explaining to the cameras that the crocodile, had it lived, would have had another good twenty years in it, maybe more, and that it was the worst thing in the world that someone had actually shot it with a gun. That's only one moment that reflects his deep affection for animals--he obviously loved them very much, even the dangerous ones, and wasn't afraid to show his naked emotional attachment to them. Most animal lovers I know wouldn't hold back, either, but still. That moment, not all the crazy daredevil stuff, showed me more about who Irwin was than anything.