The Lion "king"

If the Lion is the King of the Animals, and considering humans as animals, we are inferior to the lion. The lion is a deadly hunter and a strong fighter, very similar to us humans. We produce little stuffed lions for children to play and help them sleep. Why do we let this majestic animal look so helpless and soft? Is it to suggest that we do not need to respect it, as we do to most nature? Also lions are a more and more endangered species because we are enclosing there habitat and butchering their foods. The king of animals as a little stuffed animal, ironic not? Even if it does not have any direct relation to how humanity treats nature, it clearly shows how little value is still given to a term like king of animals. With its poor black eyes the stuffed animal lion stares at me with a dead empty glare that remembers me that we lack respect of the Environment.