TIL that llamas and alpacas are most closely related to camels!

My family raises llamas and growing up with them, I always feel like I should tell people that when llamas fight, they scream. When our new neighbors heard it for the first time they called the police because they thought someone was being hurt.

Comment by octopussiour_ at 14/05/2020 at 03:12 UTC

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All part of the Camelid family

For a good fun time, go read about the feral camel population in Australia that they are struggling with

Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2020 at 03:44 UTC*

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Comment by Irmuund at 14/05/2020 at 03:36 UTC

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Damn, didnt know Bactrian camels were endangered, people use camels here so often that i never miss out on a camel when im in the coubtryside

Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2020 at 06:27 UTC

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How is a domesticated Bactrian camel also critically endangered?

Comment by LinceyBaine at 14/05/2020 at 06:52 UTC

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There's a public footpath near my house that runs through a field where someone keeps some alpacas. I've been winding my husband up for about 7 years by calling them llamas. We recently started walking our 2 year old that way and the first time he saw them he declared them to be camels. So when we go for a walk our son asks to go see the camels, I say we're going to see the llamas and my poor husband just sighs!

Edit : stopped writing half-way through a sentence apparently!

Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2020 at 07:11 UTC

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Damn shame, every camel recipe I've seen says Bactrian is the gold standard for camel meat.

Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2020 at 14:41 UTC

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TIL