But guanacos are excellent runners, reaching speeds of 40 miles 64 kilometers per hour, just like horses. Their soft-soled hooves gain traction on the gravelly terrain. Baby guanacos, called chulengos or guanaquitos, are able to run soon after birth. Guanacos are also strong swimmers and are comfortable standing or lying in mountain streams. Whether walking, running, or swimming, guanacos are athletic.
All wildlife have many ways of communicating, although some ways are more pleasant than others. The guanaco starts out using the standard method of ears, body, and tail positions. When the ears are up, it means the guanaco is relaxed. Ears forward means the guanaco is alarmed, and ears laid flat signals aggression.
A tail pointing down is normal, straight out is a sign of an alert guanaco, and straight up is an aggressive signal. A nose-to-nose encounter is a type of greeting, while slouching down indicates submission.
Guanacos also communicate through vocalizations. Their sounds range from high-pitched trills to snorting and shrieking. Their alarm call sounds like a cross between a bleat and a laugh. Guanacos have other communication methods that some people might find gross.
They can spit up to a distance of 6 feet 1. Their stomach contents, made up of food that has been stewing in digestive juices. Food is not just for eating, as far as guanacos are concerned!
Guanacos also use their dung as a form of communication: dung piles mark territory boundaries for them. The next time you meet a guanaco, you'd better hope it has nice things to say to you! It has two humps on its back. The hump is not filled with water; it is filled with fat.
The camel uses this stored fat when water and food are scarce. While the bactrian camel doesn't store water in its humps, it does have special sack in its stomach that can hold over a gallon of water, and it can go a few days without drinking. In the winter, it has a thick, shaggy coat that helps keep it warm. Its bushy eyebrows; long double rows of eyelashes; and nostrils and lips that close tightly help keep sand out of its eyes, nose, and mouth.
The bactrian camel stands as tall as seven feet from its shoulder to its feet and can weigh up to 2, pounds. The bactrian camel is an herbivore and eats grass, leaves, thorns, and bark. It prefers salty plants. It has tough lips that let it eat very hard vegetation. Most bactrian camels are now domesticated and there are only a few hundred in the wild. The dromedarian camel is found in the deserts in Africa and the Middle East. It has one hump that stores fat, not water. It stands feet from its shoulder to its feet.
It has long legs and padded feet with two toes. It has a long, curved neck and a small head with a long snout with nostrils that can close. Its upper lip is split into two sections, and it can pull its lips in tightly to keep out sand.
It is light brown in color and has a shorter coat than the bactrian camel. It eats a wide variety of plants and can eat tough and hard plant parts that other animals can't chew or digest. The llama , the guanaco , and the alpaca. They are all native to the Andes Mountains in South America and they are all herbivores. The only wild species is the guanaco. The llama and the alpaca are domesticated.
The guanaco is found in the grasslands of the Andes Mountains. Llamas have worked for centuries as carriers and modes of transportation; their wooly fur is even regularly used to make blankets, ropes and clothing. So closely integrated into communities, llamas live alongside humans filling the role of both working animal and pet. Llamas are relatively large mammals; they stand around 4 feet tall at the shoulder, though their elongated necks can easily add another foot or two, with an average weight of to pounds.
A llama has a long neck and limbs, a rounded muzzle, a bit of an underbite and a cleft upper lip. Curious and sociable, llamas enjoy working with each other, people and even other animals. A communicative species, llamas are vocal -- using a series of calls, hums and clucking sounds to communicate and warn of predators.
The wool of llamas is a valuable commodity. The animals are sheared every 2 years, which yields approximately 6 lbs 3 kg of fleece. Aside from their value as wool producers, llamas are used by farmers to reduce predation of sheep, goats, and hens. Historically, because of their great strength, llamas were used as beasts-of-burden to carry large loads.
Llamas have been domesticated for hundreds of years to produce meat, milk, wool, and for use as pack animals. When kept as farmed animals, llamas can sometimes be fed the same diet as sheep and goats , and cared for using similar husbandry. They have a soft padded foot with a strong nail at the end — this may need occasional trimming. If their wool is not needed, shearing becomes unnecessary, as the fleece stops growing. Llamas are highly gregarious animals that, in the wild, tend to live in small herds of about These herds are usually made up of one male and several females, together with their young from the previous year.
The male defends his harem and territory against other males by biting, chest-ramming, and neck-wrestling in attempts to push his opponent to the ground.
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