DID YOU KNOW THAT LLAMAS ARE THE CAMELS' cousins?

The LLAMA is a MEMBER of the CAMELID FAMILY.  CAMELIDS ORIGINATED IN NORTH
AMERICA around 45 million years ago.
Animals that MIGRATED NORTH over THE BERING LAND BRIDGE wandered into ASIA and
NORTH AFRICA and DEVELOPED INTO THE ONE-HUMPED DROMEDARY and THE
SHORTER-LEGGED, TWO-HUMPED BACTRIAN,  DESERT CAMELS familiar to us today.
The CAMELIDS that STAYED IN THE AMERICAS and MIGRATED SOUTH BECAME LLAMAS,  ALPACAS,  GUANACOS,  and VICUNAS.
The LLAMA REMAINS, as it has been for thousands of years, an ESSENTIAL and VALUABLE
ANIMAL FOR PEOPLE LIVING AMONG THE PEAKS OF THE ANDES.
The LLAMA PROVIDES an EVER-READY SOURCE OF FOOD,  FIBER,  FUEL,   and
MOUNTAIN TRANSPORT.
If you ever meet a LLAMA, be sure and follow this simple rule of LLAMA ETIQUETTE  - DO NOT
STARE AT HIM - otherwise the LLAMA might spit in your face for being so rude!  Peek at a LLAMA out of the corner of your eye.
The LLAMA IS ABOUT FOUR FEET TALL and FOUR FEET LONG and CAN WEIGH 300
POUNDS.
They CAN TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES WITHOUT NEEDING WATER.
They CAN CARRY LIGHT LOADS OF NOT OVER 100 POUNDS.
They CAN EASILY TRAVEL 6 MILES A DAY OVER LUMPY BUMPY GROUND.  On FLAT
ground, the LLAMA CAN RUN FASTER THAN A HORSE.
LLAMAS AR HERD CREATURES. They NEED TO BE WITH OTHER LLAMAS TO BE HAPPY.
Most LLAMAS HAVE BIG PERSONALITIES. They ARE VERY LOVING AND GENTLE.
BUT, REMEMBER,  THEY DO NOT LIKE TO BE STARED AT.