From the Andes to the Outback: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire

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The article explores 19th-century efforts to acclimatise alpacas in Britain and later in Australia. Peru and Bolivia had banned the export of alpacas in the 1840s to protect their own wool industry, so the animals had to be smuggled out of their territories illegally and shipped to their new destinations.

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