Llama
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The llama is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.
Llamas, Vernagt Stausee, Italy
A Quechua girl in traditional dress with a llama in Cusco, Peru
A domestic llama
Skeleton of a llama
Alpaca
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The alpaca is a domesticated species of South American camelid. Traditionally, alpacas were kept in herds that grazed on the level heights of the Andes of Southern Peru, Western Bolivia, Ecuador, and
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…By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago), camelids were extinct in North America. As of 2007, there were over seven million llamas and alpacas in South America. Some were imported to the United States and Canada late in the 20th century; their descendants now number more than 158,000 llamas…
Alpaca in Higashiyama Zoo 1
Leefgebied alpaca
Guanacos (wild parent species of llamas) near Torres del Paine, Chile
A domesticated alpaca near the shore of Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian side