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Comedians and actors conducted an angry online reaction on the image of a female hunter posing with the body of a giraffe that she killed in South Africa
. Thousands of people shared their indignation over Tess Thompson Talley, 37 year old black giraffe during a hunting trip last summer.
Images recently shared by animal rights groups on Twitter and Facebook show Talley posing with the animal
"The prayers of my dream! He spotted this rare black giraffe bull and harbaded it for a while, "wrote Talley in a post since deleted on Facebook, according to USA Today.
The message says that the animal had over 18 years old, weighing 4000 lbs and giving 2000 pounds of meat.On average, giraffes have a life span of 25 years, according to National Geographic.
Debra Messing, an actress known for her role in the television series NBC "Will and Grace" describes Talley on Instagram as "disgusting, vile"
Comedian Ricky Gervais, who often publishes articles on animal conservation issues, wrote on Twitter: "What is what is 16 feet tall and who has a nudge on the neck?
Talley is defended in an email to Fox News in a story posted on his website, saying that the giraffe was a member of a South African subspecies that is not rare.
"The number of this subspecies actually increases, in part, to hunters and conservation efforts paid for in large part by big game hunting."
Big game hunting is legal in South Africa, where industry and badociated tourism bring in $ 2 billion a year, according to the BBC
Giraffes were ranked as "vulnerable" in 2016 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which manages the list of endangered species in the world. The number of giraffes in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen by nearly 40% since 1985, according to the organization.
Talley is not the first American to have been criticized for big game hunting. In 2015, a dentist in Minneapolis provoked fury for killing Cecil, a famous Zimbabwean lion
. The sons of President Donald Trump, Donald Jr. and Eric, enjoy hunting big game, according to their father. Photos of them posing with animals that they had killed in 2011, including a leopard, sparked criticism after their reappearance in 2016.
In March, the US Fish and Wildlife Service cleared the importation of some wholesale trophies on a case by case basis, overturning a ban initiated under Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama.
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