Author : Duccio Bonavia
Release : 2008
Genre : Camelidae
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The South American Camelids - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The South American Camelids write by Duccio Bonavia. This book was released on 2008. The South American Camelids available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this book, Duccio Bonavia tackles major questions about these camelids, from their domestication to their distribution at the time of the Spanish conquest. One of Bonavia's hypotheses is that the arrival of the Europeans and their introduced Old World animals forced the Andean camelids away from the Pacific coast, creating the (mistaken) impression that camelids were exclusively high-altitude animals. Bonavia also addresses the diseases of camelids and their population density, suggesting that the original camelid populations suffered from a different type of mange than that introduced by the Europeans. This new mange, he believes, was one of the causes behind the great morbidity of camelids in Colonial times. In terms of domestication, while Bonavia believes that the major centers must have been the puna zone intermediate zones, he adds that the process should not be seen as restricted to a single environmental zone.".