Tupi, whose sex will be determined in February, was named after the Indigenous tribe of the Amazon River Basin, where capybaras are native. It's the Tupi tribe that gave the species its name ...

Specifically, Alex Pereira belongs to the Pataxó tribe, which is indigenous to Bahia, Brazil. Ironically, his alias, 'Poatan,' which means 'Stone Hands' in Old Tupi, an extinct language ...