Alpacas and llamas are both considered camelids. They're both pretty friendly, and known for their soft fiber. The South American camelidae family is grouped into four species: Vicuna, guanaco ...

Llamas are cute, but what makes them even better human companions is their gentleness and empathy. People from their native ...

Moving onto llamas. Llamas are descended from guanacos, not vicuñas like alpacas. They are important pack animals and have been used by South American communities to transport goods across ...

Domestic llamas and alpacas carry DNA from an extinct “ghost” population of their wild camelid relatives. Furthermore, their domestication may have involved interbreeding between two different ...

Llamas and alpacas belong to a group of animals called Camelids. They are cousins to camels, dromedaries, vicuna and guanacos. All are herbivores. The most distinctive difference between llamas and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Like any new parent, Milagro has a tender touch when it comes to her first born at the San Francisco Zoo. Zoo officials say the eight-year-old member of the Camelid ...

Guanacos aren’t well known to many people outside Latin America, but you may know their woolly domesticated relatives, the llama and the alpaca. Guanacos of central Chile can be found in the ...

According to Mr Richardson, about 1,000 alpacas are currently employed on sheep farms in Australia out of a total Australian population of 35,000 - the largest outside Peru and Chile. Originating in ...