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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 vicuña is considered more delicate and gracile than the guanaco and smaller. A key distinguishing element of morphology is the better-developed incisor roots for the guanaco. [8] The vicuña's long, woolly coat is tawny brown on the back, whereas the hair on the throat and chest is white and quite long.
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.
A dromedary camel (C. dromedarius) in the Australian outback, near Silverton, New South Wales South American vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) Family Camelidae †Subfamily Poebrotheriinae †Subfamily Miolabinae †Subfamily Stenomylinae †Subfamily Floridatragulinae; Subfamily Camelinae. Tribe Lamini. Genus: Lama. Llama, Lama glama; Guanaco, Lama ...
the vicuña, Lama vicugna ; The llama and alpaca are only known in the domestic state and are variable in size and of many colors, often white, brown, or piebald. Some are grey or black. The guanaco and vicuña are wild. The guanaco is endangered; it has a nearly uniform light-brown color, passing into white below.
Vicuña Ruana made of vicuña wool The Incas herded vicuñas by the tens of thousands into pens , sheared the wool for the exclusive use of high nobles, and then released the animals. [ 7 ] In the 20th century vicuñas were hunted for their fur, so that the population declined to about 8,000 animals and was put under wild life protection. [ 8 ]
Likewise, two other species of undomesticated camelids were used: the vicuña and the guanaco. The guanacos were hunted by means of chacos (collective hunts). The Inca people used tools such as: stones, knives or tumis, axes that, according to chroniclers, were made of stone and bronze, and ropes that were made by them in their leisure time ...
In San Guillermo National Park, the vicuña is the cougar's main prey species, and constitutes about 80% of its diet. [13] However, they will abandon kills if not cached quickly, as they will often be harassed by birds of prey, such as Andean condors ; the presence of large raptors and other scavenging birds causes South American cougars to ...