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the Inca tribe tamed them for food, and they lived with them in there houses and huts

guinea pigs were the Inca's most praised and possessed food's.

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Guinea pigs originated in the Ande Mountains in Peru. This is also where the Incas live. They ate guinea pigs which is why Peruvians eat guinea pigs.

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