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Compare that to say McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under. Unlike Sykes, McLeach is aware of the fact that the animals had sentience - or at the very least could understand him - but he doesn't care as he takes sadistic delight in hacking and butchering them for profit. Of course, he also attempts to murder a child, but it's clearly worse as he tries to lower him into a river full of crocodiles. So, overall, you have a poacher who is aware that the animals he's hunting are sapient (or sentient), but he's willing to drive them to the brink of extinction in order to make sure hsi catch was rare, and he tries to murder a child in a needlessly cruel way.