A Texan trophy hunter who controversially posed with a uncommon dark giraffe's body has revealed that she ate the animal and it was "delicious."
Tess Thompson Talley, 37, during sturdy said she made decorative pillow cases and a gun case from the carcass.
She shot the 4,000lb animal above a hunting trip at South Africa at 2017. while photographs were posted above social media final year she received death threats.
In a new interview with CBS news she was asked abut the giraffe and replied: "He was delicious. They are place here during us. We harvest them, we read them. You discharge what you feeling ought do. It's joy."
She showed the gun case made forge the animal, adding: "This is a isolate of the dark giraffe that I shot, something I could receive approximately with me, and dine above my hunts.
"I during sturdy dine decorative pillows made out of him, and everybody loves them."
The hunter added: "It's a hobby, it's something that I feeling ought do, I am haughty ought follow and I am haughty of that giraffe."
She said her activities had been skill of a conservation effort, adding: "I used to quite discharge what I feeling ought do, quite than neutral grant a lump amount of money somewhere and no learn specially where that is going."
Kitty Block, principal and of the Humane association of the United States, said the accident showed "sheer and haughty overlook during the imperiled say of an iconic species."
She said: "Fewer than 100,000 giraffes linger at the turbulent at Africa, and approximately 4,000 giraffe-derived trophies were imported into the US above the final decade. More than one giraffe is killed each day."
