I'm waiting for the cartoon in the paper that shows a croc pulling someone
out of a dinghy with the croc saying "tastes like chicken."
It seems obvious to the point of silliness that training wild animals to
come for food...will teach them to come for food! Shark dive operators also
make implausible, self-serving arguments about what a good idea it is to
chum the water and attract a lot of sharks to show the divers. ("Divers,
meet sharks. Sharks, meet divers.")
There are any number of people around the world with magical-seeming,
"special" connections to wild or captive-raised predators and other
dangerous large animals. Some last years or even a lifetime without a
serious problem, others die horribly. I once saw a doco featuring a woman
that had a "special ability" to get close to hippos, a very dangerous
animal. She went out in small kayaks and moved quietly and
non-threateningly. Amazing footage. Scene opens: She's explaining her
technique to a cameraman on shore, then she sets off in her kayak. Screen
to black. Next scene: Shot from the foot of the woman's hospital bed with
seemingly every limb in traction. All she could talk about was her shock at
how she had been attacked by a hippo. It looked like it troubled her even
more than her horrific injuries.
A bit of googling turns up endless tales of "legendary" guides being killed
by animals after years in the field.
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