Im with MPH on this one. I'm a sucker for animals, even though I dine on them. I under stand micro-economics and local areas of different parts of the world do what they have to do to "survive". Just like my great grandma would drown a bunch of kittens in a potato sack because every third litter would be a drain on the farm. I just don't know what the point is of shooting a freaking giraffe. Like the Indians said, if you take from the land, you use every piece of it. I hope your buddy has some badass giraffe skin boots....for his whole family...and their friends..
I have nothing against game hunters in the US that eat what they kill, hell I might join them if I had the time and patience....but holding 4000 years of technology in your hand to off an animal that's 22 feet tall working only with instinct isn't hunting, it's the fish in a barrell story.
I had a buddy in college who grew up with a guy that became a seal, he was from Arkansas. I was told that he would hide in a tree in a gilley suit with a K-Bar and drop down on a hog if it came past and wrestle/stab/slit it. That my friends is hunting.