While doing research for an upcoming trip to Peru (more details on that later), I discovered that alpacas are awesome. Check out the photo of an unshorn alpaca, grazing and the description of alpaca sounds, both courtesy of the also-awesome Wikipedia. I will not attempt to do the latter justice in an excerpt here, but let’s just say that they purr, and they orgle. Usually not at the same time.
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April 8th, 2008 at 23:20
Oh boy, that Wikipedia page told me WAAAAAAAAY more than I ever wanted to know about an alpaca sex life.