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Key Excerpts from Article on Website of ABC/Associated Press
ABC/Associated Press, February 5, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=474567
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=474567
Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning, wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries. An association of alpaca farmers is surgically implanting microchips into hundreds of alpacas as part of an effort to reduce illegal transport of the animals. A herd of 700 Alpacas had microchips implanted in their neck muscles beneath their ears on Friday in the high plains of Peru near the town of Nunoz, about 540 miles southeast of Lima.
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