A sister site for Australia Zoo, the attraction set up by founded by the parents of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, in Las Vegas is reportedly back on the cards, five years after being first mooted.

Irwin, who was killed by a stingray while filming in 2006, first proposed the idea in 2005 while he and his wife Terri were in charge of the Queensland zoo, but the plans fell to the wayside.

Representatives of the Irwin family met with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman about opening the new zoo and later Goodman told KTNV, a Las Vegas-based television channel, that: “It looks like a great project with a crocodile 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.

“The zoo would be a limited zoo, it’s an Australian zoo, we’re not gonna have lions and tigers and giraffes. We’re going to have wombats and platypuses and koalas and crocodiles.”

Australia Zoo has confirmed that a meeting took place, but said that they were looking at a number of US locations.