The father of Australia’s famous “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin has unleashed on an American influencer who posted viral videos of himself catching crocodiles in Far North Queensland.

Mike Holston — also known as ‘The Real Tarzan’ on social media — shared a clip of himself on Friday jumping out of a boat and chasing a freshwater crocodile through ankle-deep water before diving on it.

He is seen laughing as he holds the reptile around the neck and claims, “this is what dreams are made of”.

The 31-year-old, with 15.5 million followers on Instagram alone, said he had dreamed of coming to Australia and seeing crocodiles up close since he was a child.

A couple of days later, despite backlash, there was a new video. 5

This time Holston chased and caught a small saltwater crocodile

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