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Alpacas were domesticated thousands of years ago. The Moche people of Northern Peru often used alpaca images in their art. [6] Traditionally, alpaca were bred and raised in herds, grazing on the level meadows and escarpments of the Andes, from Ecuador and Peru to Western Bolivia and Northern Chile, typically at an altitude of 3,500 to 5,000 metres (11,000 to 16,000 feet) above sea level. [7]
The original camelids of North America remained common until the quite recent geological past, but then disappeared, possibly as a result of hunting or habitat alterations by the earliest human settlers, and possibly as a result of changing environmental conditions after the last ice age, or a combination of these factors.
The group has a long fossil history in North America and Eurasia. Tylopoda appeared during the Eocene around 50 million years ago. Tylopoda has only one extant family, Camelidae , which includes camels , llamas , guanacos , alpacas and vicuñas .
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By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago), camelids were extinct in North America. [3] 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 and 100,000 alpacas. [5]
Okay everyone keep cool, a new video of a baby alpaca just dropped. The clip is seriously too adorable. It shows the newborn animal trying (and failing) to do one of its "firsts."
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North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Papua New Guinea: research, venom, pets Captive-bred Common in captivity, becoming rare in the wild 6c Other arthropods: Crested (Correlophus ciliatus) and suras geckos (C. sarasinorum) date uncertain New Caledonia: pets Captive-bred