Entertainment options in Downtown Las Vegas could be expanding, in the form of a new zoo and some crocodile wrestling. That's according to Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman.
The project would be run by the family of the late Steve Irwin. Irwin is the famed crocodile hunter who tragically died three years ago after being hit in the chest by a stingray's barb while he was snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Irwin family runs the Australia Zoo in Queensland and met this week with Mayor Goodman about opening a similar operation in Downtown Las Vegas.
"It looks like a great project with a crocodile-type enclosure where they would wrestle with the crocodiles and feed the crocodiles and have a real educational component to it and we're going to continue those discussions," said Mayor Goodman
The zoo would be a limited zoo. It's an Australian zoo. We're not gonna have lions and tigers and giraffes and all the things that Darcy Spears would want to have an investigative report about. We're just going to have wombats and platypuses and koalas and crocodiles. I'm a big crocodile fan. I love crocodiles. So it's my kind of zoo," said Mayor Goodman
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