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Llama - LAMA GLAMA
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
The Name "Llama": "Llama" comes from the same word in Quechua - a South American Indian langauge.
Location: South America in the Andes.
Habitat: Terrestrial. Mountains and upland plateaus at an altitude of more than 10,000 feet.
Description: The long shaggy coat varies in color from white all over through spotted or speckled, to brown, black, or reddish brown all over. It is somewhat like the guanaco in appearance but stockier, with long and more varied coat texture and color. It is about six feet long, four feet at the shoulder, and can weigh up to three hundred pounds.
Behavior: The llama tends to live in small groups made up of a dominant male with a harem of about up to ten females and their young. Young males are kept away from the group and lead a bachelor existence. There are no true wild llamas; all are domesticated and are used to transport goods at high altitudes, like burros and donkeys.
Reproduction: Breeding occurs in the spring, and after ten months of gestation, the female gives birth to a single young.
Note: As far as zoological prognosticators are concerned, this species still poses a problem. Some authors consider it to be a domesticated form of the guanaco, even though domestication may have happened a long time ago. Others consider it a separate species. Similarly, the alpaca is considered by some to be a race of llama, while others consider its separate species.
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