when ya live in a hut with no protection...and in fear of a lion....sorry but human life trumps a lions life...
.... no it doesn't... not by a long shot... humans are hypocrites and back stabbers and just plain dual faced... animals are straight forward honest.
If you walk down the street nobody acknowledges you.... if you walk down the street and you are tiger woods, everyone thinks you are special and wonderfull... this is how people work... or, when a ctastrophy comes and you start being a heroe, THEN people consider you something. People commit genocide's in the name of good...
Animals do everything honestly, they kill because they want to kill, they don't try to mask it with excuses, same goes to everything else... but humans don't do this.
So I don't think a specie like that is even close to be considerred more important than animals.