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Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside animals from the big wild world

Prof Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French take up the rare opportunity to delve deep inside some of nature's wondrous wild animals offering new insights into their success as a species

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Wild Inside: The Alpaca

The Alpaca

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Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the secrets to success of the alpaca.

Ben Garrod and Jess French unravel the secrets to success of the alpaca, which despite domestication survives in some of the world’s harshest mountainous areas

Alpacas may have been domesticated for thousands of years but their native lands are the steep hostile mountains of South America where they continue to thrive far from the modern luxuries of animal husbandry. Prof Ben Garrod and Dr Jess French delve deep inside this hardy herbivore to unravel the anatomy and physiology that’s secured the success of this extraordinary member of the camelid family of camels, llamas and vicugna 

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