Alvida
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I can't eat grouper for the same reason.
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Lions on Cozumel? Cougars, maybe.
From the first story: "Brittany, her mother, Penny Pilcher, and 15-year-old sister, Ashley Regelski, were in the midst of a weeklong group scuba-diving trip and were at the Parrilla La Mision in Cozumel for dinner on Wednesday night when the attack happened." That much is in error; the lions were at Casa Mission, not Parilla Mission.
Not sure why they misspelled "Mission". . . .
Being obligatory by local standards does not make it responsible.I beg to differ with you. I have been in the water here for 23 years, the first 10 interacting almost daily with groupers and a lot of other "fish". For those who had been to Cozumel in the 90s, feeding the groupers was an obligatory job of the DMs.
Im not sure how that has any bearing on the subject.But we never fed them Cheeze Wiz, always fresh cut fish.
For you to call me irresponsible would apply to every DM who worked for a living then.
I did not humanize the groupers, they have "Labradorized" themselves.
Being obligatory by local standards does not make it responsible.
I never called you irresponsible....I called every DM on Coz that was hand feeding grouper irresponsible. If that shoe happens to be your size...
That is debatable and probably where we disagree the most. Those grouper have learned over generations of interaction that divers equal free food. Just because you all no longer feed them doesn't change the ingrained behavior that they have learned and become accustomed to. I assure you if you find a grouper population that doesn't have a history of being fed by humans, they don't swim right up and ask to have their backs scratched. The act of feeding them all those years ago absolutely DID turn them into a carbon copy of your beloved Labrador Retriever.
Now I have to ask why next time I am there. I told the missus, she finds it an UNACCEPTABLE mix of English and Spanish!
Never noticed before.
Are the owner's American?