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Llamas Are Having a Moment in the US, but They’ve Been Icons in South America for Millennia
The Conversation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-18-2020
Disciplines
Abstract
With their long eyelashes, banana-shaped ears, upturned mouths and stocky bodies covered with curly wool, llamas look like creatures that walked out of a Dr. Seuss story. And now they’re celebrities in the U.S.
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Emily Wakild. "Llamas Are Having a Moment in the US, but They’ve Been Icons in South America for Millennia" The Conversation (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/emily_wakild/34/