The four species of South American camelid can interbreed to produce fertile hybrids between them, but inconstant phenotypic and genotypic characteristics from generation to generation.
The most common natural cross between the llama and alpaca female known as huarizo and less frequent in the llama and alpaca misti known as male.
A hybrid by natural mating or artificial insemination paco vicuna is the result of crossing a female alpaca and vicuna male individual producing a fiber much the fineness of the vicuña but with greater performance.
Some authors believe that these crossings are not recommended since it did not get any real advantage.
Theoretically it is possible to cross between any of the South American camelids and camels of the Old World that would be done by artificial methods.
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