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Copyright: michael shalter (retlash)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 60 W: 1 N: 168]](http://i1.treklens.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (1069) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-09-26 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 1/800 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-10-25 12:04 |
| Viewed: 437 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
| This is a herd of wild vicuna (Vicugna vicugna), at about 4000 m on the road from Arequipa to Cusco in the Peruvian altiplano. Along with the guanaco, it is one of the two wild camelids of South America. It produces very small amounts of the finest, softest, warmest wool of any animal on earth. Its wool costs a small fortune...1800 to 3000 US dollars per yard of woven fiber! It'll cost the average Peruvian 3 month's pay to buy a pair of vicuna socks! Their numbers are now up to about 125,000 after having been on the brink back in the 1960's with only a few thousand left. |
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