Alpaca
Vicugna pacos
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Vicugna pacos
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Camelidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Medium (1–2 m)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- South America
- Habitat
- Mountains, Grassland
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its fleece comes in more than twenty natural colours.
- Alpacas share a communal dung pile, which makes their pastures easy to keep clean.
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- Dromedary
Camelus dromedarius
- Bactrian camel
Camelus bactrianus
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q122181742 · All animals · All entries