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Others have made much more extreme remarks, calling the young girl “sick” and even wishing that she comes to harm.

One middle-aged man wrote how he hoped she might be “torn apart by hyenas,” while a woman suggested the girl should be hunted down and shot herself.

In the wake of the backlash, Gourdin acknowledged the profile picture of the giraffe was “offensive to others,” but claimed the money spent on her hunts goes back into conservation.

“We hunters need to stand together no matter what we are hunting, as long as it is 100 percent legal,” she added.

“To talk down to or condemn any kind of hunting only hurts us all. In the end if we all want to continue hunting this is necessary.”