[Fictionary] SURRA results

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

> Hutch
>
> surra, n. A camelid closely related to llama, alpaca, guanaco, and 
> vicuña; markedly larger than the llama (approx. size of a horse). Like 
> the llama, they were associated with an Aymar deity, but that deity 
> went out of favor when its priests failed to predict the coming of 
> Europeans to the Andes. Breeding decreased radically during Spanish 
> rule and it is unknown whether any remain alive today.
>
When I was in Chile a few years ago, and we saw guanacos (the first one 
caused great excitement on the bus, but after we had seen a few 
hundred...), I had a question for our guide:
"_La_ llama, _la_ alpaca, _la_ vicuña, _el_ guanaco... ¿por qué? 
Guanacos son mas machos?"
He didn't have an answer.

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J-J Cote
jjcote at alum.mit.edu

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