Alpaca Cam

Alpaca cam (camelids) are often uses as pack animals on hunting trips and managed on farms. With the introduction of Spanish horses, mules, sheep, swine and dogs into South America, the camelids were forced to find refuge high on the altiplane of the Andes. Thousands of years of highly regimented, state controlled selective breeding was severely disrupted by the Spanish Conquest in the 16th Century. Alpaca cam (camelids) are often uses as pack animals on hunting trips and managed on farms.

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