I, on the other hand, am baffled by the outrage in any case. I do not understand why some animals have greater value than others. Be it rarity or not, from an evolutionary perspective there's no ranking. One cannot say that a worm is worth less than a human.

So, this value ownership that has been put on the animal species is entirely subjective and irrational, and points out a little bit of hypocrisy in all of us.