Drôle d'animal [English translation]

Who cannot fly

But chases birds?

Who under water

Cannot breathe?

Who am I then?

To think I am the strongest

To think I can do anything

To give me the right of life and death

Guess, what to say?

I am the least human

Of the animals

I am the worst

I think of nothing

But saving my own skin

So to speak

The wildest

Of big cats in a cage

I am by far

The least handsome

Who invents the bomb?

Who mocks the world?

Who kills for the pleasure of killing?

But who am I then?

To think of myself as above

All those which I kill

Who respects neither anything nor anyone

Who then, if not man?

I am the least human

Of the animals

I am the worst

I think of nothing

But saving my own skin

So to speak

The wildest

Of caged big cats

I am by far

The least handsome

I am the last

Link in the chain

Less than nothing

A man who no longer

Has human figure

Yes I am

The wildest

Of caged big cats

I am by far the least handsome

What is my brain for?