{"id":179305,"date":"2025-09-27T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179305"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:30:57","slug":"what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179305","title":{"rendered":"What we can learn from the Nuer people and their sacred birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia\u2019s Gambella region and Africa\u2019s largest wetland, the Sudd, in South Sudan, birds are gaatkuoth or \u201csacred children of God.\u201d The community has identified at least 71 bird species that are culturally important to them and useful in traditional medicine&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2025\/08\/what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia\u2019s Gambella region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179305-what-we-can-learn-from-the-nuer-people-and-their-sacred-birds-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}