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Alpaca farming

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Alpaca farming

Alpacas and llamas are intelligent and easy to train, as shown by this mob of alpacas following a dog. Because llamas were used for carrying loads, difficult animals would have been culled, so these days most are easy to handle.

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Jim Esson, Exotic farm animals – Alpacas and llamas, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18703/alpaca-farming (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jim Esson, published 1 March 2009.