The Awá Guajá are among the world’s most isolated people, if not the most secluded.
Awá women show some serious love to some of their tiniest mammalian friends by caring for abandoned babies of dinner monkeys like infants.
“Any animal that needs it they will breast-feed.” That means deer and piglets too. ...an Awá woman breast-feeds monkeys and agoutis, small rodents with teeth sharp enough to crack Brazilian nut fruit.
Awá women show some serious love to some of their tiniest mammalian friends by caring for abandoned babies of dinner monkeys like infants.
“Any animal that needs it they will breast-feed.” That means deer and piglets too. ...an Awá woman breast-feeds monkeys and agoutis, small rodents with teeth sharp enough to crack Brazilian nut fruit.