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| Llamas are camelids which means they are cousins with camels, alpacas, and vicunas. They all originated in North America. Camelids began to wander in different directions. (The ones that went over the land bridge became camels.) The llamas supposedly migrated only to the south, but there have been strange drawings made in Ancient Greece that look exactly like llamas. (Count on the Greeks to screw up history.) So now you will find wild llamas in Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador. However, llamas have been domesticated for thousands of years. They have been used as pack animals and also for their coats. Some ancient wack-job South Americans thought it would be "cool" to sacrifice black llamas to the gods. Luckily they don't do that anymore, but if they are really hungry, they will eat llama meat. Sadly, I heard it tastes pretty good. No, you will not find llama jerky at Crosby's. |
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| This water container and many similar ones made between 600 and 800 A.D. show the importance of llamas in Andean cultures | ||||||||||||||||
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