It is a great honor for the aboriginal hunters to kill a big animal. By so doing they receive the affirmation of the group and find meaning in their own existence. "It's not like you can just say, 'Don't hunt mountain boar any more, but we will give you farm-raised hogs in their place!'" says Walis Nogang, with humor and pain.
撲殺大型動物對原住民獵人是榮譽的，可以受到族人肯定，找到自己存在的意義，「不是說你不要打山豬了，我給你一條肉豬就可以替代的」，筆調幽默但沈痛、不時在小說中描寫獵人生活的瓦歷斯．諾幹說。