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Microchips to Save Peru's Alpacas

Posted by simoniker on from the llama-world dept.

lakeesis writes "BBC News has published an article stating: 'Peru has launched a campaign to implant microchips in hundreds of pedigree alpacas to try to stop the best animals being smuggled out of the country. Officials say they know alpacas are being sneaked across Peru's borders'."

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  1. news? not even for nerds - this stuff don't matter by daveb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I can put a chip in my dog to ID it in case it strays or is stolen. Why is it news that someone is doing this alpaca's? It's bad enough that it's a slow day on BBC - but this stuff shouldn't raise a blip here. BTW - tagging 900 in five years? that doesn't sound very much. I mean, 3 alpaca's a week is hardly difficult. If there are 5000 alpas's in NZ (a href="http://www.lifestyleblock.co.nz/articles/753 _Alpaca_farming.htm">soucrce then I expect there are a tad more in south america.

  2. But... but... by mangu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm an alpaca, you insensitive clod!

  3. Peru, Iquitos, and the Rubber Trade by p940e · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought somebody should mention that a little city in Peru, called Iquitos (it's in the Amazon basin), used to be the center of the rubber industry. Then somebody smuggled the rubber tree out of the country and the industry moved somewhere cheaper.

    It seems to me, Peru is just trying to prevent a similar disaster with their pricey alpaca fleece.