HalcyonDaze
Contributor
Boulderjohn, I couldn't agree more. Whilst in Belize, I have seen many fish pointing out lionfish and then eagerly awsiting the kill by the dm.
Alternately,as I said earlier, my finger was perceived by a nurseshark to have been pointing out dinner for him.
I observed the same in Grand Cayman last year - on the wall the big snappers were following us around and hovering over lionfish holes. They were sorely disappointed as I had not attempted to get my pole spear through Customs and various Wile E. Coyote tactics were unsuccessful.
The interesting thing to me is that there is at least one natural precedent to this - groupers have been observed approaching and signaling moray eels, then leading them over to prey tucked into the reef. The moray will then go in after the fish in their hidey-hole; if they run out into the open the grouper is there to scoop them up. I wonder if this is a behavior only seen in those species or something we'd come across in other marine predators.