We leave much of an empty space for an explanation on why we reign so superior amongst other forms of life.

You can see all the built up triumph in this guys face as he's kneeling beside his fresh kill. It took me a few seconds before I realized the beaming yellow eyes of what seems to be a mountain lion staring not too far behind him. This pictures like a cliff-hanger; you might be thinking what's going to happen next. When I tried to figure that out, I thought of it as this Moose was living in it's natural habitat doing everything we could expect a moose to do, before of course, it was abruptly shot out of sport by a hunter. The hunter shot clearly on target, but aimlessly with lack of reason. Now in this same exact habitat also belonging to this mountain lion, why wouldn't we expect for it to act with it's natural instincts and perhaps attack this man? And if this were to happen, who's fault would that be? This guys so wrapped up in oblivion, he forgets that the atmosphere he's in is not his own. Just as easily as he has victimized an animal in the wilderness, he is subject to become prey himself.

"This concept of human identity positions humans outside and above the food chain, not as part of the feast in a chain of reciprocity but as external manipulators and masters of it: Animals can be our food, but we can never be their food. The outrage we experience at the idea of a human being eaten is certainly not what we experience at the idea of animals as food. The idea of human prey threatens the dualistic vision of human mastery in which we humans manipulate nature from outside, as predators but never prey."

We get so strung out on pride with our heads held high and our chests puffed out, we forget there are predators indefinitely more powerful than us.

(Surviving a Crocodile Attack: by Val Plumwood, from the book The Ultimate Journey)
(The Ecology of Order and Chaos: Donald Wester)
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