vicinage

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Llamas, condors, ostrich-like nandus, flamingos and the reclusive cousin to the llama, vicunas, scatter when the massive convoy rumbles through some of their last natural habitats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2011

The ancient Incas obtained vicuna wool by driving wild vicunas into corrals, shearing them, and then releasing them alive.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Modern merchants wanting this luxury wool have had to resort either to this same method or simply to killing wild vicunas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“The bird would have been no use to us, but I dare say its death would have saved the lives of a good many young vicunas and llamas.”

From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by Fenn, George Manville

Were they wild beasts from the Pampas, or herds of llamas and vicunas?

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules