How Awa people of Brazil adopt animals to breastfeed

The Awa or Guaja tribe is an endangered indigenous group of people living in a remote region in the eastern Amazon forests of Brazil.

Their language is in the Tupi-Guarani family. Originally living in settlements, they adopted a nomadic lifestyle to apparently escape incursions by the Europeans.

As revealed on a Brazilian site, Jornal Hoje, an encroachment on their land and their consequent killings, had reduced Awa numbers to approximately 350 surviving members; and about 100, allegedly have had no contact with the outside world and still living their traditional, isolated, hunter-gatherer way of life.

The Awa people, however, have a really unusual tradition, DailyMail reports.

It is said that they walk around unclad and over time, they lead a nomadic lifestyle in which they “adopt animals to breastfeed.”