" From Africa to the western United States to the story of the rainforest of the Amazon, it is the fate of many wild creatures either to be unwanted by men or wanted too much, despised as a means to progress or desired as a means to progress - beloved and brutalized all at once, like the elephant and whale and dolphin. "

― Matthew Scully , Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy