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Lama is a genus containing the extant South American camelids: the wild guanaco and vicuña and the domesticated llama, alpaca, and chilihueque. Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas, alpacas, and chilihueques were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent. They were kept not only for their value as beasts of burden, but ...
Camelidae. Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda. The seven extant members of this group are: dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, wild Bactrian camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos. Camelids are even-toed ungulates classified in the order Artiodactyla, along ...
Guanaco. The guanaco ( / ɡwɑːˈnɑːkoʊ / 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 vicuña ( Lama vicugna) or vicuna[ 3] (both / vɪˈkuːnjə /, very rarely spelled vicugna, its former genus name) [ 4][ 5] is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations. Vicuñas are relatives of the llama, and are now believed ...
The alpaca ( Lama pacos) is a species of South American camelid mammal. Traditionally, alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of Southern Peru, Western Bolivia, Ecuador, and Northern Chile. Today, alpacas may be found on farms and ranches worldwide, with thousands of animals born and raised annually.
Llama (acronym for Large Language Model Meta AI, and formerly stylized as LLaMA) is a family of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) released by Meta AI starting in February 2023. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The latest version is Llama 3.1, released in July 2024.
Palaeolama mirifica, the "stout-legged llama", is known from southern California and the Southeastern U.S., with the highest concentration of fossil specimens found in Florida (specifically the counties of Alachua, Citrus, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk, Brevard, Orange, Sumter, and Levy ). Other fossil occurrences have been discovered in Mexico ...
Macrauchenia ("long llama ", based on the now-invalid llama genus, Auchenia, from Greek "big neck") is an extinct genus of large ungulate native to South America from the late Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene. [ 1] It is a member of the extinct order Litopterna, a group of South American native ungulates distinct from the two orders which ...