In this Poetically worded Essay, Aldo Leopald discusses the extinction of the pigeon species and honors their life while also condemning the people that have caused their disappearance entirely. In his writing, he also makes the reader think about what we gained overall from hunting these birds in which to the point where they are no longer a living species but a thought or a picture in a museum or wildlife center.One of Leopald's purposes of the essay is to make the reader think " Are we stepping over our boundaries and over hunting certain species?" or " What is even the purpose of killing an animal after we have the necessities to live from it"?
From this article I know that these questions popped into my head. It seems now that humans just hunt for fun ad kill them with no purpose which is a waste. We sacrifice animals like the passenger pigeon just for our own enjoyment which is a cruel thing to do. Most cultures unlike ours use the entire animal if they hunt it and actually need it in order to survive.Like Aldo Leopald, I do condemn such a thing as a shameful and sadly horrific act because just on our own we wasted and killed off a harmless species for really no need except for entertainment.
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