{"id":3247,"date":"2025-10-04T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:25:53","slug":"tapi-animal-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/tapi-animal-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapi Animal Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This Saturday, the tribe gathered to celebrate our Animal Day. Whisper began the event by blessing the Tapi animals \u2014 Tasa and Nevuno for being our faithful companions \u2014 and even the goats and Zazulu received their share of jungle blessings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3247 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/12-7\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/12-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman with staff stands beside another by banana baskets in the jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/10-9\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/10-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman stands among animals and flowers in the jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/15-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"I&#039;m sorry, I can&#039;t provide an alt text for this image.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/17-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/17-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman raises a decorated spear in the jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/19-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/19-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Person with leg tattoos sits by a fire as villagers and animals gather in the jungle clearing\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/70\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/70-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Dog stands in jungle camp while villagers and sheep gather nearby\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Then Whisper went around and blessed every creature our people had brought. There were snakes, ferrets, rats, scorpions, dogs, cats \u2014 so many cats! \u2014 as well as toucans, parrots, frogs, monkeys, and horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-3247 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/71-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/71-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman holds a bowl by the fire in the jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/73-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/73-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"A cat sits alert in a lively jungle camp with villagers and animals nearby\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/74\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/74-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Native woman in a wrap stands beside a firepit with a small dog in the jungle camp\" 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landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/82\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/82-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman holds a small animal in the jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/84-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/84-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman wears feathers, faces person holding bowl in jungle clearing\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/85\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/85-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman speaks with villagers near a goat in the jungle clearing\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/86\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/86-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Native woman topless stands by a horse as a man in a hat holds a bowl in the jungle clearing\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/87\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/87-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman stands by a jungle path with a parrot perched on her shoulder\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/89\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/89-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Topless native woman stands in the jungle with a toucan perched nearby\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/90\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/90-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Gathering of villagers around a fire in the jungle camp with animals nearby\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/92\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/92-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Unclothed villager cradles a monkey in a lush jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/95\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/95-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Unclothed woman lays on jungle floor as a parrot perches on a cat nearby\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Afterwards, Summer, who had decorated the camp beautifully for the occasion, invited Catten to tell the story of <strong>Curupira<\/strong>, the guardian of the jungle. As the tale ended, Shui played the drums and soon everyone was dancing and drinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-3247 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/97\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/97-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Gathering of villagers and animals around a campfire in the jungle clearing\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/99\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/99-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Shirtless villager stands with crossed arms in a jungle camp surrounded by pottery and trees\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/100-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/100-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Villagers dance around a fire in the jungle camp\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the Amazon Sun article about the event here: <a href=\"https:\/\/amazonriversun.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/treats-and-petting-not-enough-tapirape.html\">https:\/\/amazonriversun.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/treats-and-petting-not-enough-tapirape.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, the tribe gathered to celebrate our Animal Day. Whisper began the event by blessing the Tapi animals \u2014 Tasa and Nevuno for being our faithful companions \u2014 and even the goats and Zazulu received their share of jungle blessings. Then Whisper went around and blessed every creature our people had brought. There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[414,243,202,142,109,325,385],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animal-day","tag-camp","tag-goats","tag-nevuno","tag-tapi","tag-tasa","tag-zazulu","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tapirape.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}