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Boise, Idaho: An Idaho Fish and Game Commission member is in hot water after sharing photos of himself posing with a family of baboons and other animals he killed while hunting in southern Africa last month.
Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer poses with 'a whole family of baboons' he says he shot on a recent hunting trip in Africa. Credit:Idaho's Office of the Governor
Commissioner Blake Fischer and his wife shot at least 14 animals in Namibia, according to the photos and descriptions included in an email he sent to more than 100 recipients.
They included a giraffe, leopard, impala, sable antelope, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, gemsbok (oryx) and eland.
The photo causing most angst is one of Fischer smiling broadly with four dead baboons propped in front of him, blood visible on the abdomen of the smallest baboon. Fischer killed them using a bow and arrows.
"So I shot a whole family of baboons," Fischer wrote below the photo in the emails he sent.