Peyman said, may have inadvertently been increased by a ban on importing some elephant products, which was upheld by the Trump administration late last year.

The American public generally opposes big game hunting, according to a Marist poll in 2016 that found 86 percent disapprove.

An investigator with the society's United States organization went undercover to 21 locations to track giraffe sales and talk to sellers.

The investigator found a taxidermied body of a juvenile giraffe, selling for $7,500, according to the Humane Society, and a pillow made with an animal head, intact down to its eyelashes.

On bible covers selling for $400 and equally expensive boots, the hair is removed from the hide — so it's not even evident that the source is a giraffe.

A video produced by the investigator wearingthe main heroic character — their feelings and behaviours — for a while after. Consider Superman, Rocky, Karate Kid, or Star Wars.

It is worth stating that the influence is not always a positive one. On more sinister note, I remember when Natural Born Killers came out in 1994 and I went to see it at the theaters with my then girlfriend and a friend. Upon the end of the movie, 17-year-old me left the theater feeling like a true badass. Despite loving the movie, fortunately none of us acted upon that sensation and began psychopathically shooting bystanders in the streets of Cairo, as it happened elsewhere with people who pretended to be Mickey and Mallory before all hell broke loose.

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