Mayleene Persuasive Letter

Dear Hunter, Hello this is the young giraffe, Mayleene, from the African boime. I would just like to express my intense resentment and annoyance towards you for your inhumane actions. Assassination of my kind will not be tolerated so I’m taking a stand! I am outraged that this is even an issue that needs to be addressed.

I am a herbivore, which means I am the primary consumer in my ecosystem along with other primary consumers. As female giraffes, we can grow up to about fifteen feet tall! That’s pretty high compared to a human like yourself. Scientists call us Giraffa camelopardalis. We can weigh up to about three thousand pounds! We giraffes have suffered significant declines in our population in the past decade with a total dropping of thirty percent across Africa alone. A mix of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, impacts of war and civil unrest, and poaching are contributors to our extermination. Some people are astonished and shocked that we giraffes are threatened. Other people are in such dismay that they simply do not believe that we are threatened.
The first reason being is that it is wrong to kill. Consider how you would feel if your son or daughter was murdered. I am sure you would be devastated and would demand justice for the person who took their precious life away from you. Another reason I would like to bring to your attention is the fact that I want to live with all of my family without having to be anxious and worry that during family meals and nighttime sleeping, all of us could be in danger to be crucified by the human race. Just because we are animals, does not mean that we do not have feelings or emotions just like