(CNN) -- The CEO of GoDaddy.com on Friday defended an online video that shows him shooting and killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. "It takes a guy like me" to protect villagers' crops from rogue elephants, he said. Bob Parsons, founder of the Scottsdale, Arizona-based web-hosting service, posted the graphic video on his Twitter account on March 14. The footage, shot March 8, shows him hunting an elephant on a farm and posing with a shotgun beside its corpse. Then, it shows locals crowding around the dead animal and cutting off pieces of its meat. Parsons said he killed the animal for the good of local farmers whose crops are often destroyed by elephants.
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