Llama poop makes empires!

Today's Fun Fact: Llama poop is the most powerful of poops!

As you probably know, the Inca empire covered South America’s west coast 600 years ago. It was bigger than Peru, Chile, and Argentina combined. The Incas ruled!

What made such a big empire possible was a steady food supply. But since most of the Inca empire was mountainous, it didn’t have the best farmland. So how could farms deliver the goods?

Llama poop!

Alex E. Proimos

Even at elevations that were two miles high, rich llama poop proved to be the perfect fertilizer for crops… especially corn!

So historians agree that without llamas busting grumpies up in the Andes, the Incan empire could never have been possible.

Article from New Scientist,

top photo by Kmilo.