The point of this argument is to compare humans with animals they replaced, not animals with other animals, because the assumption is that we, as humans, are et

The point of this argument is to compare humans with animals they replaced, not animals with other animals, because the assumption is that we, as humans, are ethically capable of engaging with this kind of question in the first place. I don't think anyone is arguing that "the land belongs to the bears and no one else."