The coatis, and why the sign is in three languages
A coati is about the size of a cat, with a long striped tail. It walks around in groups of eight or ten and will come within a metre of a breakfast table without hesitating. Guests call them adorable, and nearly everybody's first instinct is to give one a piece of medialuna.
The sign by the pool asks you not to, in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Here is the reason.
A fed coati stops foraging and starts waiting. A group that has learned that people carry food will approach anyone carrying anything, and that includes children carrying nothing. They have long claws and a bad bite, and the clinic in town treats coati bites every season, almost all of them from feeding.
The second problem builds more slowly. Scraps suit them, their numbers climb past what the forest edge can support, and soon there are too many around the buildings and too few doing their work in the forest.
So please don't feed them or leave a bag open on a lounger, and close your shutters when you go out. One of them worked out the catch on room nine in 2019, and the staff still talk about it.
They are worth watching, though. Sit still on the terrace at five in the afternoon and a group will come through, which is a better thing to have seen than one taking a pastry out of your hand.