But it's hardly surprising to me that someone who seems to have made a career of provoking animals got killed, even if the accident was as freakish as everyone says, by an animal that might or might not have been provoked into an attack.

Precisely.

The crazy thing is that I saw him in an ad on National Geographic channel on Sunday saying that he thought he was more interesting to people than the David Attenboroughs of the world precisely because he didn't bother with the academic side of things. He just got out there and got his hands dirty. I actually said to isotripy at the time "He's going to meet a sticky end eventually" and THE VERY NEXT DAY he gets assassinated by a bull ray.

Freaky.

btw Ms. Greer is being pilloried in the Australian press for her comments...