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“ Early accounts from Spanish settlers' state that Guinea pigs were the preferred sacrificial animal of the Inca people native to Peru. [1]These claims are supported by archeological digs and transcribed Quechua mythology[2], providing evidence that sacrificial rituals involving Guinea pigs served many purposes in society such as appeasing the gods, accompanying the dead, or reading the future.[3]
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Remove “which subsists on the family’s vegetable scraps.”
In the sentence “They continue to be a food source in the region; many households in the Andean highlands raise the animal, which subsists on the family’s food scraps.”
Guinea pig is a
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“ Early accounts from Spanish settlers' state that Guinea pigs were the preferred sacrificial animal of the Inca people native to Peru. [1]These claims are supported by archeological digs and transcribed Quechua mythology[2], providing evidence that sacrificial rituals involving Guinea pigs served many purposes in society such as appeasing the gods, accompanying the dead, or reading the future.[3]
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Remove “which subsists on the family’s vegetable scraps.”
In the sentence “They continue to be a food source in the region; many households in the Andean highlands raise the animal, which subsists on the family’s food scraps.”