Which is not, I don’t think, a sign of artistic arrogance, but only of the confidence that is natural to any creature whose attributes allow it to thrive in the habitat where it has found itself. Which is to say, conversely, that not every creature will be in possession of those attributes, and will not be equally adapted to that habitat, and will not thrive in the same way, if it finds itself there, or if it places itself there, for it will have evolved for some other purpose, and some other environment.