Feb 25, 2016
• Originate from Central plains of North America about 10 million years ago
• Migrated to South America, while members of camel family became extinct in North America
• Wool• Packing (can carry 80 pounds or
25% of body weight!)• Showing/exhibiting• Driving carts• Meat
• 15 to 29 years
• 20 - 35 pounds
• 250 - 450 pounds
• 5 - 6.5 feet tall at head
• Two
• Brown, black, peach, white, grey or spotted; they may be 22 different colors
• A newborn llama
•A sitting position
• A cousin to the llama, they are smaller in size
• An alpaca with straight fiber that falls from the body that looks like dredlocks
• A huacaya alpaca has puffy hair, like a poodle