This tantalisingly shallow insight into the ancient mind of the hunter reveals a spiritual dimension to human awareness. Sadly, the new age of selectively edited and enhanced 'image-speak' appears to be trivialising conventional spirituality and reverence for nature in favour of some higher 'truth'. Many prominent animal rights people are physical science graduates who, seeking higher truth, shift into philosophy. In all academic disciplines, the further one proceeds, the closer one converges towards the central study of epistemology, that is, the study of the nature of knowledge itself. This is where the really big questions lie.
Many scientists believe that the biggest gaps in human understanding relate to consciousness.
Because our awareness is so close to everything we do, we can't comprehend it. Perhaps this is the flaw with seeking truth. If all persons who sought to make judgements about animal rights first objectively and honestly studied population biology, animal ethics would doubtless be much easier to comprehend. And when one tries to comprehend anything, what is needed is language. Without language, thought and consciousness become unimaginable.