How Vicunas For Sale Started

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By Essie Osborn


There seemed to be clothes that are unbelievably expensive. Some of these are made in rare animal skin. And unfortunately, these animals are already part of endangered species because of continued hunting for their skins. Animal fur, skin and other parts that can be used from them are being taken even before they die of disease or old age. Some even get hunted while bearing another life in them and that is what is stopping their reproduction. One place somewhere in South America known as Andes had its economy improving because of vicunas for sale. Their place is where you can find vicunas. It is where these animals are habituating because of the weather and source of food.

This animal is part of the camel family. It is also commonly known as camelidae which is related to the alpaca, llama and guanaco. The skin of this animal is covered with fine, long, soft and lustrous coat that has the colors of either a light cinnamon or pale white. People who takes out their skin can get approximately 85 to 550 grams or 3 to 20 ounces each one. Although vicuna fiber is resilient and strong, it is very sensitive to chemicals and is usually used in its natural color. Its very expensive fiber is usually made into fine coats, designer gowns and shawls and even bags. Let us check out what makes this cloth extremely expensive.

Because of its silky and dense fleece, once it is being reserved it provides you great insulation against extreme coldness and sudden changes of temperature. This animal is know to be the smallest among the camelids family. It only has a height of 90 centimeters or 36 inches and weighing 50 kilograms or 110 pounds.

This animal is part of the animals from the wild. They feed themselves with grass. They go from one place to another in a large group of females and lead by one male who acts as a lookout. Once a baby vicuna is born, the mother stays beside them for 10 months.

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.

This sure costs a fortune. Here are some more mind foods for you to know more about why it is considered the most expensive. There are also more information on how this thing started to become a fabric and who the first people are to wear it.

It is known to be the fabric of the Gods. This line was given by the Inca tribes. These statement means that only people from the royal family can wear it. When the Spaniards started to take over the whole tribe, they called it as the fabric of the New World. It was then that the animals started to vanish abruptly. They introduced the fabric to the whole world which causes the increase of demands.

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 of this animal was stopped when the order from the United Nations came out stating that any kinds of trade where vicuna is involved should be stopped. With it, vicunas started to grow in numbers already. Peru alone has 160 thousand plus of vicunas in their place. Now, people hunting it are slower than usual.




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