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in north america and australia . alpacas are not used as beasts of burden, but mainly are valued for their fiber, and traditionally have been valued also for meat, hair, hides, and their dung, used as fuel. they have been domesticated for thousands of years, even prior to the incas , who raised and bred
from the vicuña, not the guanaco. the relationship between alpacas and vicuñas was disputed for many years, but wheeler's dna work provided substantial evidence of the relationship. however, many academic websites have not caught up with or embraced this change. behavior alpacas are social herd animals...
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