Aoudads
Aoudads are enormous, proud, and graceful animals.
The largest have sweeping beards from chest to hoof,
thick horns curling behind them,
and a critical goaty gaze
which sees you from its perch
high in the desert rocks
and seems to say, “what low thing
squints up at my grandeur?”
Their strength prevails in a climate
where lesser breeds wither.
Every image on the net
is one of these proud ruminant gods,
dwarfing a human at their side,
head upright,
held aloft by the horns
by a smiling hunter.
Something there is about a god
which drives mankind to kill it.
We suffer nothing to live above us.
Fresh Hell 
Oh, this is a superb poetic observation about an issue that more prosaically infuriates and sickens me.
The fact that you could have used any animal but selected a less well known but clearly magnificent force of nature enriched the imagery —and thus the experience—for me.
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I only just learned what they are! They really are magnificent.
“People… what a bunch of bastards.”
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And then of course my dad sends me this. Way to break the magic web I tried to weave
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