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Thursday, April 17, 2014

How Vicunas For Sale Started

By Essie Osborn


There are a lot of expensive clothing available anywhere. Some are from different skins of animals and are warm to use. There are places in the world where these animal skins are found. One place that has improved because of this is Andes. This is where vicunas are habituating. This is also where fabric makers find vicunas for sale. You might be wondering what this creature is as it does not sound usual.

This kind of animal is part of the camelids. It is also known as camelidae. Its relatives include, alapaca, guanaco and llama. Its skin consists of long, fine and soft coat with a light cinnamon or pale white as its color. Here are some additional facts about it that will leave you amazed.

It is known to be silky and its fleece are dense. Once it has already been prepared to be something useful to humans it can help you feel comfortable even to extreme coldness or sudden weather and temperature changes. It is by far the smallest of all in the family of camels with a height of 90 centimeters and a weight of only 50 kilograms.

As one of the animals living in the wild, they too feed themselves with grass. In a group of females and a male serving as their lookout, they transfer from one habitat to another. Every time a baby vicuna is born, they have to stay with their mother for 10 months before they can freely walk around by themselves.

They can be considered to be one of the animals that are essential because of what they have. But the bad side of it is that they are being hunted without limit. Hunters seem to enjoy them for they cost so much. Because of that, they are now one of the considered endangered animals.

Here are more information as to why it costs a fortune to have something to wear with vicuna as cloth or fabric. This kind of fabric only has 12 microns compared to the usual fabrics that has 16 to 18 microns. It is even considered as finer than our own hair.

It was first considered to be the fabric for the Gods. It was the Incas who first used them as clothing. But as to how they call it, only people from royal families will have the chance to wear it. When the Spaniards took over them, it was when all the bad things happen. Demands for vicunas increased when these people started introducing it to the world for their own benefits. They call it the fabric of the New World.

From having over a million of vicunas during the Inca tribe times, it rapidly dropped to over 5 thousand when the Spaniards took control of everything. This happened when they started to introduce the fine fabric to the world. Demands of having such from different countries increase resulting to frequent hunting.

The hunting only stopped when an order coming from the United Nations was declared. They were asking all vicuna hunters to stop. Then reproduction of the animal then increased up to 160 thousand.




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