|  Alpaca Partially domesticated South American mammal of the camel family . It belongs to the same (genus) Lama. Although the flesh is sometimes used for food, and the animal is breed chiefly for its long, lustrous wool, which varies from black, to shades of brow , to white. Flocks of alpaca are kept by Indians in the highlands of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. They feed on grasses which grow close to the snow line , and they require a pure water supply . The Incas had domesticated the alpaca and utilized its will before the Spanish conquest .
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