Baby Bob Irwin bitten by boaBy staff writers

STEVE Irwin's son Bob has copped his first snake bite - with pride.

His mother Terri Irwin told AP the four-year-old was not alarmed at all when he was bitten by a baby boa constrictor recently.

"He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit," Terri said.

"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous', so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually let him play with venomous snakes," she said.

The couple's nine-year-old daughter, Bindi, was first bitten by a snake when she was 18-months old, Terri told AP.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin died in 2006 after he was pierced by a stingray's barb during an underwater documentary shoot. He was 44.

Two years earlier, he provoked an international outcry after being filmed holding Bob, then one-month-old, while feeding a crocodile.