"can breed at any time but it is more difficult to breed in the winter. Most breed during autumn or late spring. The most popular way to have alpacas mate is pen mating. Pen mating is when they move both the female and the desired male into a pen. Another way is paddock mating where one male alpaca is let loose in the paddock with several female alpacas. The gestation period is, on an average, 11.5 months, and usually results in a single offspring, or ""cria"". Twins are rare, occurring about once per 1000 deliveries. Cria are generally between 15"
"Cria A cria (pronounced ) is a juvenile llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. The term comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning ""baby"". Its false cognate in English, ""crya"" (pronounced ), was coined by British sailors who explored Chile in the 18th century and were quick to describe the camelids onomatopoeically according to the ""mwa"" sound they made, which was not unlike that of a human crying baby. In alpacas, pregnancies last 11 to 12 months, and usually result in a single cria. Twins are rare, approximately , slightly rarer than the proportion of twins in human births. Twin cria"
"Alpaca The alpaca (""Vicugna pacos"") is a species of South American camelid. It is similar to, and often confused with, the llama. However, alpacas are often noticeably smaller than llamas. The two animals are closely related and can successfully cross-breed. Alpacas and llamas are also closely related to the vicuña, which is believed to be the alpaca's wild ancestor, and to the guanaco. There are two breeds of alpaca: the and the Huacaya alpaca. Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of Southern Peru, Western Bolivia, Ecuador, and Northern Chile at an altitude"
"and 19 pounds, and are standing 30 to 90 minutes after birth. After a female gives birth, she is generally receptive to breeding again after about two weeks. Crias may be weaned through human intervention at about six months old and 60 pounds, but many breeders prefer to allow the female to decide when to wean her offspring; they can be weaned earlier or later depending on their size and emotional maturity. The average lifespan of an alpaca is between 15–20 years, and the longest-lived alpaca on record is 27 years. Alpacas can be found native all over South America."
"Incans often use dried cria carcasses to make payments to Pachamama. Used in ceremony, the crias are burned and the ashes are given as payments to the earth. In the markets of Cuzco, crias are sold for such purposes. Cria A cria (pronounced ) is a juvenile llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. The term comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning ""baby"". Its false cognate in English, ""crya"" (pronounced ), was coined by British sailors who explored Chile in the 18th century and were quick to describe the camelids onomatopoeically according to the ""mwa"" sound they made, which was not"
"conquistadors arrived. Suri alpacas represent a smaller portion of the total alpaca population, around 10%. They are thought to have been more prevalent in pre-Columbian Peru since they could be kept at a lower altitude where a thicker fleece was not needed for extenuating weather conditions. Alpacas are social herd animals that live in family groups, consisting of a territorial alpha male, females, and their young ones. Alpacas warn the herd about intruders by making sharp, noisy inhalations that sound like a high-pitched bray. The herd may attack smaller predators with their front feet, and can spit and kick. Their"
"of alpaca. The name is derived from cào nǐ mā (), which translates to ""fuck your mother"". Note that the comparison with the ""animal"" name is not an actual homophone, but rather the two terms have the same consonants and vowels with different tones, which are represented by different characters. Their greatest enemy are ""river crabs"" (, ""héxiè"", resembles ""héxié"" meaning ""harmony"", referring to government censorship to create a ""harmonious society"", while noting that river crabs are depicted wearing three wristwatches, vaguely referring to the Three Represents, where ""represent"" and ""to wear a watch"" are homophones, both pronounced ""dàibiăo""), and"
"space"" within their families and groups. They make a hierarchy in some sense, and each alpaca is aware of the dominant animals in each group. Body language is the key to their communication. It helps to maintain their order. One example of their body communication includes a pose named broadside, where their ears are pulled back and they stand sideways. This pose is used when male alpacas are defending their territory. When they are young, they tend to follow larger objects and to sit near or under them. An example of this is a baby alpaca with its mother. This"
"other breeds of sheep. In trade, distinctions are made between alpacas and the several styles of mohair and luster. An adult alpaca generally is between in height at the shoulders (withers). They usually weigh between . Alpacas have been domesticated for thousands of years. The Moche people of Northern Peru often used alpaca images in their art. There are no known wild alpacas, and its closest living relative, the vicuña (also native to South America),is believed to be the wild ancestor of the alpaca. The family Camelidae first appeared in Americas 40–45 million years ago, during the Eocene period, from"
"communicate through body language. The most common is spitting when they are in distress, fearful, or mean to show dominance. Male alpacas are more aggressive than females, and tend to establish dominance of their herd group. In some cases, alpha males will immobilize the head and neck of a weaker or challenging male in order to show their strength and dominance. In the textile industry, ""alpaca"" primarily refers to the hair of Peruvian alpacas, but more broadly it refers to a style of fabric originally made from alpaca hair, such as mohair, Icelandic sheep wool, or even high-quality wool from"
"Huacaya alpaca Huacaya or Huacaya alpaca is the one of the two breeds that make up the species ""Vicugna pacos"", commonly known as the alpaca. The other breed is the Suri. It lives on the Altiplano plateau in the Andes at up to 4,000 m above sea level. Its natural range encompasses four South American countries. Both breeds are easily identifiable by their phenotypic characteristics. There are no differences in weight, or pup at birth (7.5 to 8 kg) or the adult specimens, weighing about 70 kg in males and 65 kg in females. Animals of the Huacaya breed have"
"the forefeet and five in the hind feet (the first and fifth are reduced); the nails function as hooves. The tail is short and hairless. The zygomatic arch is expanded laterally and dorsally and is used as a resonating chamber - a unique feature among mammals. An adult lowland paca weighs between . While their fertility is low, the lowland pacas no trouble surviving. Each litter has one young lowland paca, sometimes two. They usually have one to three young a year with a gestation period of about 115–120 days. Pacas are sexually mature at about 1 year. A paca"
"Lowland paca The lowland paca (""Cuniculus paca""), also known as the spotted paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from East-Central Mexico to Northern Argentina. Introduced to Cuba, Bahamas, Jamaica and Hispaniola. The animal is called paca in most of its range, but tepezcuintle in most of Mexico and Central America, pisquinte in northern Costa Rica, jaleb in the Yucatán peninsula, conejo pintado in Panama, guanta in Ecuador, majás or picuro in Peru, jochi pintado in Bolivia, and boruga, tinajo, or guartinaja in Colombia. It is also known as the gibnut in Belize, where it is"
"unusual in a large animal. The gestation period of a llama is 11.5 months (350 days). Dams (female llamas) do not lick off their babies, as they have an attached tongue that does not reach outside of the mouth more than half an inch (). Rather, they will nuzzle and hum to their newborns. A cria (from Spanish for ""baby"") is the name for a baby llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. Crias are typically born with all the females of the herd gathering around, in an attempt to protect against the male llamas and potential predators. Llamas give birth standing."
"the alpaca (""Vicugna pacos""), the guanaco (""Lama guanicoe""), the llama (""L. glama"") and the vicuña (""V. vicugna""). The study showed the two tribes had diverged 25 million years ago (early Miocene), earlier than previously estimated from North American fossils. The dromedary and the Bactrian camel often interbreed to produce fertile offspring. Where the ranges of the species overlap, such as in northern Punjab, Persia and Afghanistan, the phenotypic differences between them tend to decrease as a result of extensive crossbreeding. The fertility of their hybrid has given rise to speculation that the dromedary and the Bactrian camel should be merged"
"Vicuña The vicuña (""Vicugna vicugna"") or vicuna (both , very rarely spelled ""vicugna"", which is actually the name of its genus) is one of the two wild South American camelids which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco. It is a relative of the llama, and is now believed to be the wild ancestor of domesticated alpacas, which are raised for their coats. Vicuñas produce small amounts of extremely fine wool, which is very expensive because the animal can only be shorn every three years, and has to be caught from the wild."
"shoulder is . It is slightly larger than the vicuña. Normally, the alpaca is found in the Andes in Peru and Bolivia, though it also inhabits northern Chile and northwestern Argentina. There are about 3.5 million alpacas in the world. In the 1980s, alpacas started being exported to other countries for farming purposes: they can be found in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, though the vast majority still reside in South America. The alpaca is mainly used for its wool. Out of the domestic camelids, the alpaca produces wool with longer and finer fiber than the llama, with"
"Llama The llama (; ) (""Lama glama"") is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the Pre-Columbian era. The height of a full-grown, full-size llama is tall at the top of the head, and can weigh between . At birth, a baby llama (called a ""cria"") can weigh between . Llamas typically live for 15 to 25 years, with some individuals surviving 30 years or more. They are very social animals and live with other llamas as a herd. The wool produced by a llama is very soft and lanolin-free."
"for this previously unidentified haplogroup. In 2018, researchers sequenced the genome of the Aconcagua mummy from a sample from one of his lungs. His Y-DNA lineage belongs to Haplogroup Q-M3. His specific Y-DNA haplogroup is closest matched by the Choppca people from Huancavelica, a Quechua speaking population, and clusters closer to modern Quechua speaking peoples than Aymara speaking peoples. Overall, the genome of the Aconcagua mummy clusters with modern Andean populations. Aconcagua mummy The Aconcagua mummy is an Incan ""capacocha"" mummy of a seven-year-old boy, dated to around 500 BP. The mummy is well-preserved, due to the extreme cold and"
"In addition to other bovid species (such as bison, yak and water buffalo), these include the young of camels, dolphins, elephants, giraffes, hippopotamuses, larger deer (such as moose, elk (wapiti) and red deer), rhinoceroses, porpoises, whales, walruses and larger seals. However, common domestic species tend to have their own specific names, such as foal and lamb. Calf A calf (plural, calves) is the young of domestic cattle. Calves are reared to become adult cattle, or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and for their calfskin. The term ""calf"" is also used for some other species. See ""Other animals"" below."
"as garden fertilizer or even natural fertilizer. Another factor that goes into alpaca hygiene is their tooth care. When observing the teeth of an alpaca, it is a good way to tell if they have a healthy digestive system. Alpacas have their full set of adult teeth by the age of six. Male alpacas have 32 teeth and female alpacas have 30 teeth. Males have two extra teeth, called fighting teeth, but females only rarely have these. Alpacas have six lower incisors which help them bite off plants to chew. They do not have any upper incisors, but their mouths"
"expensive and not common, but it can be accomplished. Embryo transfer is more widespread. A male is usually ready to mate for the first time between two and three years of age. It is not advisable to allow a young female to be bred until she is mature and has reached two-thirds of her mature weight. Over-breeding a young female before conception is possibly a common cause of uterine infections. As the age of maturation varies greatly between individuals, it is usually recommended that novice breeders wait until females are 18 months of age or older before initiating breeding. Alpacas"
"and dentition between the alpaca and the vicuña. Classification was complicated by the fact that all four species of South American camelid can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. The advent of DNA technology made a more accurate classification possible. In 2001, the alpaca genus classification changed from ""Lama pacos"" to ""Vicugna pacos"", following the presentation of a paper on work by Dr.Jane Wheeler etal. on alpaca DNA to the Royal Society showing the alpaca is descended from the vicuña, not the guanaco. Alpaca fleece is a lustrous and silky natural fiber. While similar to sheep’s wool, it is warmer, not"
"of the mountain. Such sacrifices with children being the usual subjects are known as ""capacocha"" and the discoveries of their mummies on mountains in the Andes has gained them a lot of attention. The process served to tie the Inka empire more closely together, since children to be sacrificed were selected from the entire realm and the children adorned and their names remembered after the sacrifice. Ampato Ampato (possibly from Quechua ""hamp'atu"" or from Aymara ""jamp'atu"", both meaning ""frog"") is a dormant stratovolcano in the Andes of southern Peru. It lies about northwest of Arequipa and is part of a"
"both predators and the mother to enter, which are then covered with leaves and twigs. To invite the young out of the hole, the mother uses a low rolling vocalization. Suckling usually lasts for 90 days, after which the young weights . The lowland paca is found from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. They primarily live in rainforests near streams, but can also be found in a wide variety of habitats, including mangrove swamps, gallery forests near water currents, and even in public parks. They have been observed up to above sea level. The smaller mountain paca lives in the"
"initially brings her young wounded or slow prey to practice on as they improve their killing technique. The young are fully grown around 6 months old, and leave their mother to establish their own territory by 10 months. Tayras are playful and easily tamed. Indigenous people, who often refer to the tayra as ""cabeza del viejo"", or old man's head, due to their wrinkled facial skin, have kept them as household pets to control vermin. Sometimes, they attack domestic animals, such as chickens. Wild tayra populations are slowly shrinking, especially in Mexico, due to habitat destruction for agricultural purposes. The"
"geese to death during a pressing attack. ""Alpe"" are also similarly blamed for minor illnesses and milking cows dry, for they enjoy the taste of cow's milk as well. The ""Alp"", in many cases, is considered a demon, but there have been some instances in which the ""Alp"" is created from the spirits of recently dead relatives, more akin to a spirit or ghost. Children may become an ""Alp"" if a woman bites a horse collar to ease the pain during an extremely long and tortuous childbirth. Also, a child born with a caul or hair on the palms may"
"tribe or a troop. Two separate groups of primates are referred to as ""monkeys"": New World monkeys (platyrrhines) from South and Central America and Old World monkeys (catarrhines in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea) from Africa and Asia. Apes (hominoids)—consisting of gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans—are also catarrhines but were classically distinguished from monkeys. (Tailless monkeys may be called ""apes"", incorrectly according to modern usage; thus the tailless Barbary macaque is sometimes called the ""Barbary ape"".) Monkeys range in size from the pygmy marmoset, which can be as small as with a tail and just over in weight, to the male"
"one or two kittens, and occasionally three. The kittens weigh around at birth. The average lifespan is nine years, but some have lived for over 16 years. Pampas cat The Pampas cat (""Leopardus colocola"") is a small wild cat native to South America that is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List as habitat conversion and destruction may cause the population to decline in the future. It is also known as the colocolo or Pantanal cat over parts of its range. It is named after the Pampas, but occurs in grassland, shrubland, and dry forest at elevations up"
"result of male alpacas bred to female llamas, this would explain the mtDNA consistent with guanacos. This situation has led to attempts to reclassify the alpaca as ""Vicugna pacos"". Alpacas come in two breeds Suri and Huacaya, depending on its fiber rather than conventional or European classifications Huacaya alpacas are the most common found, about 90% of the population. The Huacaya alpaca is thought to be originated in post-colonial Peru. This is due to their thicker fleece which makes them more suited to survive in the higher altitudes of the Andes after being pushed into the highlands of Peru when"
"energy than the female in feeding of hatched youngs. Pica (genus) Pica is the genus of seven species of birds in the family Corvidae in both the New World and the Old. The genus name ""Pica"" is derived from the Latin name for the Eurasian magpie. They have long tails and have predominantly black and white markings. One species ranges widely from Europe through Asia, one occurs in western North America, one is restricted to California, one is restricted to southwestern Saudi Arabia, and one occurs across North Africa; the last two are often considered subspecies of the Eurasian. They"
"Lamini Lamini (members are called ""laminoids"") is a tribe of the subfamily Camelinae. It contains two extant genera with four species, all exclusively from South America: llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos. The former two are domesticated species, while the latter two are only found in the wild. None display sexual dimorphism. The four species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Additionally, there are two extinct genera known from the fossil record. The digestive system of lamoids allows them to digest certain toxins. Laminoids also lack a gallbladder. The alpaca, a domestic camelid, weighs between , while its height at the"
"male chimpanzee and a female chimpanzee, named ""Alon"" and ""Leakey"", arrived at the zoo from Israel in 2015. In February 2018, ""Leakey"" gave birth to a female chimpanzee, fathered by ""Alon"". It's believed to have been the first baby chimpanzee to have been born in Queensland since the 1970's. The baby chimpanzee was eventually named ""Capri"", nominated by a Yeppoon family as an homage to her place of birth - the Tropic of Capricorn on which Rockhampton sits in a region often referred to as Capricornia. The birth of ""Capri"" is part of an Australian and New Zealand breeding program"