The Cradle of Flames and Alpaca
Fuente: I PRAY OF ANDES, the flames, Alpaca, Vicu�s and Gumps of South America
The Alpaca, together with the gumps and vicu�s, are ruminant that they belong to the family of the camelidos of the suborden tilopodos, order artiodactilos. This classification not includes camels and Asian dromedaries that are kindred very distant of South American camelidos. The separation begins at the level of the tribes: Lami y Camelino.
Of the prairies of North America two migratory currents came out. It leaves of the predecessors of the modern camelidos they went to the North, consenting to Asia for the natural bridge of the strait of Bering. Their descendants are the camels and the dromedaries.
The other current migratory taking heading for the south. Andes Power stations occupies and, after being dispersed for the Argentinean pampas, I arrive in Tierra del Fuego, in the southern end of the continent.
The evolutionary process for which you/they have passed both goods has been different. The anatomical, physiologic changes and of behavior they have allowed Camelidos to subsist in areas deserticas, where they are subjected to long periodos without water. As for the Flames, they have made possible their adaptation to dry lands located to big heights, in those that should support such inconveniences as the oxigeno dismunicion and the hard grass with great cellulose content.
