Almost 4,000 giraffe hunting trophies were imported into the United States between 2006 and 2015 – that is more than one giraffe killed by an American every day. Photo by iStockphoto

Exactly three years after the killing of Cecil the lion sparked outrage among the American public, one more U.S. trophy hunter is making international headlines for killing an imperiled animal — this time a giraffe. The news of this hunt comes just weeks after another American killed a lion, alleged to be Skye, a male dominant lion, also in South Africa.

The hunter who shot the giraffe in South Africa and posted photos of herself, grinning, next to the dead animal, evoked reactions raging from disbelief to anger in the media and on the internet.

“I didn’t even know people hunted giraffes,” said Gayle King, cohost of the CBS Morning Show.

While most…