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Llama Conservation status Domesticated Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Camelidae Genus: Lama Species: L. glama Binomial name Lama glama (Linnaeus, 1758) Domestic llama and alpaca range Synonyms Camelus glama Linnaeus, 1758 The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a ...
Lama is a genus containing the South American camelids: the wild guanaco and vicuña and the domesticated llama, alpaca, and the extinct chilihueque.Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas, alpacas, and chilihueques were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent.
Llama Llama is a children's animated television series that premiered on January 26, 2018, on Netflix.Co-produced by Genius Brands and Telegael Teoranta and based on the books by Anna Dewdney, the series follows an anthropomorphic llama named Llama Llama (voiced by Shayle Simons) living with his Mama Llama (voiced by Jennifer Garner) in a town that is run by anthropomorphic animals where he ...
Lama: Llama (Lama glama) (domestic form of guanaco) 130 to 200 kg (290 to 440 lb) Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) South America about 90 to 120 kg (200 to 260 lb) Alpaca (Lama pacos) (domestic form of vicuña) 48 to 84 kg (106 to 185 lb) Vicuña (Lama vicugna) South American Andes: 35 to 65 kg (77 to 143 lb)
The Llama llama, also spelled Llamallama or Lama lama, was probably a dance with the characteristics of a farce or a disguise game with acrobatic elements. [1] It is believed that the name of the dance came from the Aymara language, [1] which was the name the Aymara people used to describe the Urus dressed as dancing demons. [2]
The guanaco (/ ɡ w ɑː ˈ n ɑː k oʊ / ghwuah-NAH-koh; [3] Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama. Guanacos are one of two wild South American camelids; the other species is the vicuña , which lives at higher elevations.
The diameter of llama wool's fiber varies between 20 and 80 micrometers, depending on whether the llamas were raised for its wool or as a pack animal. The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a wild camelid, standing at 100–120 cm (39–47 in) at the shoulder [6] and 150–160 cm (59–63 in) at the head.
In 1829, Johann Baptist Fischer reassigned the species to Lama. [2] Pierre Boitard proposed the alternate name Lama chilihueque in 1841. [3] There are two main hypotheses for its origin: the first suggests that it was a locally-domesticated guanaco and the second that it was a llama or alpaca introduced from the north. [4]