Ex-NFL star Jay Cutler sparked outrage after posting photos on Instagram of an endangered animal that he\u2019d killed.<\/p>\n
The photos show a smiling Cutler crouching over a dead giant sable antelope \u2014 a massive hoofed mammal known for its large, curved horns.<\/p>\n
\u201cKicked off the Africa hunt with a beauty. Sable down,\u201d the first post reads.<\/p>\n
Another post included a video montage of the hunt and Cutler shooting the animal.<\/p>\n
Cutler uploaded more pictures of a seemingly dead antelope on Monday with the caption \u201cAnother great day.\u201d<\/p>\n
While some commenters congratulated Cutler, and noted the meat from the animals tends to be donated to locals, the trophy hunting got some criticism too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWow, Jay you killed a wild animal in a place it\u2019s rarely hunted and it had zero idea you were a threat,\u201d one Instagram user commented on the first post. \u201cSuper impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to Africa on a safari and saw the most incredible wildlife and never once thought about murdering them,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n
The giant sable antelope, which is considered critically endangered and nearly extinct, was considered \u201crare and impressive animal\u201d in its native Angola, according to the Carnegie Museum of Natural history.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever numerous, today the Giant Sable is critically endangered, threatened by habitat loss, civil war, and poachers. Active conservation efforts continue, but population estimates indicate there are less than a hundred mature individuals,\u201d the museum\u2019s website reads.<\/p>\n
However, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources\u2019 Red List, which tracks species, classifies the giant sable antelope as \u201cstable\u201d overall.<\/p>\n
While Cutler\u2019s hunting appears perfectly legal, he\u2019s run into trouble in the past.<\/p>\n
He was arrested for DUI and gun possession in Tennessee last October.<\/p>\n
Cutler, 42, played 12 seasons in the NFL with the Denver Broncos, Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL star Jay Cutler sparked outrage after posting photos on Instagram of an endangered animal that he\u2019d killed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[8850,7820,12328,10013,12329,9832,1322,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-12584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-denver-broncos","10":"tag-endangered-animal","11":"tag-giant-sable-antelope","12":"tag-impressive-animal","13":"tag-jay-cutler","14":"tag-miami-dolphins","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}