The story behind Cecil the Lion's death has blown up with several threats against Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer's life, and while Jimmy Kimmel Live host Jimmy Kimmel also has nothing but contempt for Palmer after learning about the crime, he is encouraging everyone else to try and force a more positive outcome from the tragic situation.

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"I don't think the answer is to start a witch hunt for the guy, " Kimmel said during a 4 1/2 minute monologue about the huge story. "Some people online are saying we should skin him and feed him to the lions. It's crazy, but it should be handled in a lawful way, and the men who took him out in the Jeep should be made accountable too. In the meantime, I think it's important to have some good come out of this disgusting tragedy."

Kimmel then had the website for the group that initially put the tracking collar on Cecil to study him flash across the screen as he continued.

"This is the website for the Wildlife Conservation Unit at Oxford, Wildcru.org, these are the researchers who out the collar on Cecil in the first place," he said. "They track the animals and study them. If you want to do something, if you want to make this into a positive, make a donation and support them. AT the very least, maybe we can show the world that not all Americans are like this Jackh--e, this dentist."

Though he did encourage people to try and make some good and let the case against Palmer be handled in a lawful way, Kimmel still didn't mince his words when it came to his own contempt for the man, as he questioned why he felt the need to kill an animal in the first place.

"The big question is, why are you shooting a lion in the first place? I mean, I'm honestly curious to know why a human being would feel compelled to do that. How is that fun?" Kimmel asked. "It it that difficult for you to get an erection that you need to kill things that are stronger than you? If that's the case, they have a pill for that, it works great. Just stay home and swallow it and you save yourself a lifetime of being the most hated man in America who never advertised Jello pudding on television."

Kimmel then went on to call Palmer's reasons for hunting in the first place despicable, making it clear that those with perceived legitimate reasons for hunting are not in the wrong.

"And by the way, I'm not against hunting, if you're hunting to eat, or to help keep the animal population healthy, or it's a part of your culture or something, that's one thing," he said. "But if you're some ahole dentist who want's a lion's head over the fireplace in his man cave so his d--bag buddies can gather around it and drink scotch and tell him how awesome he is, that's just vomitous."

According to reports, Palmer paid $55,000 to hunt down Cecil, and during a nighttime hunt he and two other men from a Zimbabwe company tied another dead animal to their car to lure Cecil out of the National Park, after which Palmer allegedly shot him with a crossbow. The group then tracked an injured Cecil for 40 hours, shooting him dead with a rifle. His carcass was discovered days later by trackers, skinned and beheaded, with his tracking collar still intact despite an attempt to destroy it.

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