One more feeble rationalization out the window…
Exposing the Big Game
Forget Hunters' Feeble Rationalizations and Trust Your Gut Feelings: Making Sport of Killing Is Not Healthy Human Behavior
One more feeble rationalization out the window…
Exposing the Big Game 
Duh, don’t need scholars to tell me this, this is just something you KNOW as an aware human being. In fact animals can be far more conscious and sentient than many humans, their senses much stronger than ours, etc., not to mention their communication needing no complex language, much more sensory and psychic. People’s arrogance is a disease that seriously needs curing.
That’s all so true, unfortunately a lot of people don’t know it since they aren’t aware human beings.
And I’m afraid without a cure, ingrained human arrogance will prove fatal for the planet.