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Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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are places that animals cannot cross. These fea-tures di-vide theearth into great realms, each having some groups of animals thatdiffer from those of the other realms. Many kinds ofanimals in each realm are also found in other realms, forsome can cross places that are barriers to others. SOUTH AMERICAN REALM. (km 113 101. South American Realm. This realm includes South America, Central Americaand the West Indies. It reaches from the plateau ofMexico to Cape Horn. Among the animals of the Andes highland are thellama and alpaca. These are in the same family as the camel, but they have no kept in flocks. The other, called the guanaco, is huntedby Indians on the plains southward from the pampas. The large running bird known as the rhea, or Americanostrich, is found in the same region. Cattle and sheep in great numbers graze on the pampasand the llanos. These animals are not native to thisland but were early brought by white settlers fromEurope. Hides, wool and beef are leading articles of
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humps of fat on theirbacks, nor broad padson their feet. Each toeof the alpaca and thellama has a thick solea that clings easily to the PI I rough rocks over whichthese animals climb tofind grass. Alpacas are kept in large flocks by the Indians ofBolivia and of Peru. These animals are covered withfine soft wool. Llamas were at one time used in great numbers to carrore from the mountain mines to th «

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