Classification of Llama
Llama's are a member of the camelied family, which includes camels, alpacas,vicunas, and guanacos. Historically, in the wild, they were found in the Andes Mountain of South America, where they were farmed and domisticated for hundreds of years for meat, milk, wool, and for use as pack animals. They are now farmed in many countries worldwide.
The Llama's under-coat wool is known for its softness, whereas the upper-coat wool (known as "guard hairs") is a little coarser, and serves to protect llamas from debris and rain. Both coats are used for weaving into fibers. Llamas are social animals and live in herds.
Llamas are herbivores, preferring to munch on low shrubs, lichens, grasses, seeds, grains, roots, and other mountain vegetation.Because their natural habitat (The Andean highlands in Peru) is very dry, llamas have adapted to small amounts of water. They only consume around two to three gallons of water and only eat around 1 to 2 percent of their body weight in food each day.
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