Photo of a hunter with a dead black giraffe ignites anger

The photos appeared on Facebook last year for a much more discreet answer.

A hunter identified by USA Today and other media outlets such as Tess Thompson Talley of Kentucky stands proudly with a black giraffe that she chased, shot dead in South Africa in June 2017.

In a Facebook post now deleted but captured in screengrabs, she wrote that the trip was a "dream hunt in a lifetime" that came true

"Spotted this rare bull black giraffe", she wrote, "I knew that he was the only one – he was over 18, 4,000 pounds and was lucky enough to receive 2,000 pounds of meat from him. "

That could have been the end if Africa Digest in South Africa had not tweeted these photos in June 16, igniting an outcry of criticism directed against Talley Online

"A white American savage who is partly a Neanderthal comes to Africa and shoots a very rare black giraffe (courtesy) of South African stupidity " Africa Digest wrote on Twitter. "She's calling Tess Thompson Talley. Please share it."

The post has also kicked off the debate on big game hunting and whether it should be allowed in South Africa. Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are among the African countries where trophy hunting is legal.

"But you have to blame the African states for allowing this kind of tourism.It is simply immoral and false," wrote one person on the tweet Africa Digest

. The publication highlighted the second part of his original tweet about Talley: "If our so-called governments can not take care of our wildlife, then we stand up and take responsibility for our continent, our lands, our resources and our wildlife …. share share share! and we have a united voice against the looting of Africa, it's the only house we have. "

In an email to Fox News, Talley said that the giraffe that she killed "was the South African subspecies of giraffe.The number of these subspecies increases partly because of hunters and conservation efforts largely funded by the hunt. Big game. "

Although she described the giraffe as" rare "in her original Facebook post, she told Fox News that" race is not uncommon in any way. other than very old. Giraffes darken with age. "

In 2012, LiveScience reported new research suggesting that male giraffes become completely covered with black spots when they reach the average age of 9.4 years, unlike men and gorillas whose hair becomes silvery and gray as they get older, giraffes become darker, the researchers found.

Male giraffes, who become mature males around the age of 10, live an average of 14 to 16 years, according to LiveScience, with some living up to 22 years old Lions

Talley told Fox that the giraffe that she had killed was 18 years old and had been problematic in the herd , killing three young bulls who, unlike him, were still young enough to breed. [19659002"Thisiswhatistheconservationofthepuppies'"shewrites

The giraffe on the picture is, indeed, d & # 39; 39, a South African species that does not is not rare but increases in nature. co-founder of the organization Giraffe Conservation Fo "

" L giraffe hunt is not a reason for their decline, despite the moral and ethical side that is a different story, "Fennessy told Yahoo.

The trophy photos have a history of vitriol stirring on social media. One of the most notable cases occurred in 2015 when Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer was despised internationally for killing the beloved Cecil the lion near a national park in Zimbabwe.

Talley is the third woman to have been viral. a picture of dead giraffe. In 2016, Aryanna Gourdin, then 12, from Utah, sent her a "Aryanna Gourdin – Braids and Bows".

Rebecca Francis, 41, faced the same reaction the year before. from her lying next to a giraffe she killed.

Gervais, known for his animal activism, tweeted about Talley too, writing: "Giraffes are now on the" red list "of putting endangered due to a 40% decline over the past 25 years, which could disappear and disappear forever. "