#0362 · 🦊 mammals

Vicuña

Lama vicugna

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Thomas Fuhrmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Lee E. Harding · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © loan_1221 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Laguna Colorada, Bolivia:© Slunky · CC BY 4.0
5. Chimborazo Province, Ecuador:© pfaucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Chimborazo Province, Ecuador:© Michael Hanrahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. El Loa, CL-AN, CL:© David Robichaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Parinacota, CL-AP, CL:© rdsage · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Parinacota, CL-AP, CL:© Nicole Arcaya-Orrego · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. El Loa, CL-AN, CL:© xavierpiron · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The vicuña ( Lama vicugna ) or vicuna (both /vɪˈkuːnjə/, very rarely spelled vicugna , its former genus name) is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes; the other camelid is the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations. Vicuñas are relatives of the llama, and are now believed to be the wild ancestor of domesticated alpacas, which are raised for their coats. Vicuñas produce small amounts of extremely...

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NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,763iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).