The Llamas
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The New Guinea Singing Dogs

Lama glama

Home:  Dry, barren, open areas of western and southern South America from Ecuador to southern Chile

Food:  Grasses, grains and shrubbery

Size:  up to 300 pounds

Life Span:  

Llama Trivia:

  • Llamas have 3 stomachs.

  • Llamas were originally domesticated in 1531.  They have proved to be very valuable working animals.

  • Llamas are usually used to carry packs.  One Llama can carry a pack of up to 130 pounds at 18 miles per day over rough mountain terrain.

  • The Llamas blood is different from most mammals.  It has more red corpuscles, which makes it more efficient at using oxygen.  This allows it to live in higher altitudes.

  • Llamas have a reputation for bad tempers.  If they are overloaded, they tend to spit, bite and refuse to move.  They cannot be ridden.

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Our Meet the Animals section includes research from the following websites:

The Austin Zoo's website:  www.austinzoo.org.

Spanish translations courtesy of the Austin Zoo.

Rolling Hills Refuge Wildlife Conservation Center http://www.rhrwildlife.com/animbot.htm

The Birmingham Zoo  http://www.birminghamzoo.com/

The WWW Virtual Library: Zoos  http://zoonet.home.mindspring.com/www_virtual_lib/zoos.html

Photographs in Our Meet the Animals Section from PrintMaster Platinum v8.0 software.

Research on farm animals came primarily from  http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

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