How To Use Guanaco In A Sentence
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The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
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Pumas roam these passes, hunting vast areas for grey fox, upland geese or guanacos, the wild and woolly relative of the llama.
Globe and Mail
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For many years, historians and scientists assumed that the Incas had created both the llamas and alpacas by domesticating the guanaco, which is larger and more widely distributed than the vicuna.
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Llamas, as well as alpacas, vicunas, and guanacos are all tylopods, which are in the same family as camels.
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Terrestrial mammals are abundant with large herds of guanaco Lama guanicoe existing almost everywhere in the Península.
Península Valdés, Argentina
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Llamas come from a family of four-footed animals called camelids, which also include alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos.
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This animal (whose name is sometimes written "huanaca," though the pronunciation is the same with "guanaco" or "guanaca") is larger than the llama, and for a long time was considered merely as the wild llama, or the llama _run wild_, in which you will perceive an essential distinction.
Popular Adventure Tales
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Llamas come from a family of four-footed animals called camelids, which also include alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos.
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Sara Clemence/The Wall Street Journal A guanaco at rest Our guide led us along a pleasant and sometimes hilly path; we paused to examine a delicate porcelain orchid and to gasp at views.
So Far, So Good
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(evidently a corruption of "guanaco"), one of their modes is to lie in wait for it on the limb of a tree which projects over the path taken by these animals, the habit of which is to follow one another in single file, and along old frequented tracks.
The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure
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The next day, from a ridgetop we saw dozens of guanacos - longnecked and graceful as a ballerina.
Times, Sunday Times
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Llamas and alpacas, sometimes considered to be the same species, may both have been derived from the guanaco through a thousand years or more of domestication.
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Hiking in this vast, unspoiled wilderness is one of life's most invigorating experiences as crisp air fills your lungs, condors circle overhead and skittish guanaco check you out from across the grassy pampas.
Donna Heiderstadt: The Joys of Wandering Off the Beaten Path
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Some of the mammals include the Patagonian Mara (Dolichotis patagonum), the Southern Viscacha (Lagidium viscacia), the Wolffsohn's Viscacha (Lagidium wolffsohni), the Patagonian Weasel (Lyncodon patagonicusi), the Humboldt's Hog-nosed Skunk (Conepatus humboldti), the puma (Felis concolor), the Falkland Island wolf (Dusicyon australis), the Guanaco (Lama guanicoe).
Patagonian grasslands
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The most characteristic mammal fauna of the Monte are the edentates quirquincho chico or piche llorón (Chaetophractus vellerosus), pichiciego (Chlamyphorus tuncatus), carnivores such as puma (Felis concolor), zorro gris chico (Pseudalopex griseus), zorrino chico (Conepatus castaneus), huroncito or hurón chico (Lyncodon patagonicus), the ungulate guanaco (Lama guanicoe), and the rodents cuis chico (Microcavia australis), mara (Dolichotis sp.).
Argentine Monte
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Other species of interest are the guanaco Lama guanicoe, Argentine grey fox Duscicyon griseus and Austral hog-nosed skunk Conepatus humboldti.
Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
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Among the fauna we find great herbivores such as the pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus celer) and the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), carnivores such as the puma (Felis concolor), Geoffroy's cat (Felis geoffroyi), pampa fox (Dusicyon gymnocercus), zorrino común (Conepatus chinga) and grison (Galictis cuja).
Humid Pampas
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Despite the conditions, they're as alert as ever, for stalking these hills are Patagonia pumas, cats that can pull down guanacos twice their weight.
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But the true joy of travel is more often found in off-the-beaten-path destinations where the towns have no traffic lights and the "crowds" consist of herds of grazing guanaco or regiments of 600-year-old stone statues.
Donna Heiderstadt: The Joys of Wandering Off the Beaten Path
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Among the fauna we find great herbivores such as the pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus celer) and the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), carnivores such as the puma (Felis concolor), Geoffroy's cat (Felis geoffroyi), pampa fox (Dusicyon gymnocercus), zorrino común (Conepatus chinga) and grison (Galictis cuja).
Humid Pampas
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Both the llama and the alpaca are domesticated forms long believed to be descended from the guanaco, a wild camelid.
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Among mammals we find the mara (Dolichotis patagonum), chinchilla (Lagidium viscacia), Wolffsohn's mountain viscacha (Lagidium wolffsohni), Patagonian weasel (Lyncodon patagonicus), Pategonian opossum (Lestodelphis halli), zorrino patagónico (Conepatus humboldti), puma (Felis concolor), zorro gris chico (Dusicyon griseus), guanaco (Lama guanicoe), etc.
Patagonian steppe
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Get your cute fix with a rescued baby dolphin and a newborn guanaco, which is a llama-like creature native to South America.
Animal Photos Of The Week
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Glacial ice in your whiskey, guaranteed guanaco, condor and rhea sightings, and even a vegetarian option come mealtimes are just some of the luxuries.
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The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) – which along with the domesticated llama (Lama glama), the alpaca (Lama pacos), and the wild guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is one of four distinctive camel species found in the Tropical Andes – represents an important conservation success story for this hotspot.
Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes
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The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) – which along with the domesticated llama (Lama glama), the alpaca (Lama pacos), and the wild guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is one of four distinctive camel species found in the Tropical Andes – represents an important conservation success story for this hotspot.
Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes
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In appearance the guanaco is the personification of gentleness.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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The Andean camelids are found in these and other ecoregions, including the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), llama (Lama glama), guanaco (Lama guanacoe), and alpaca (Lama pacos).
Central Andean wet puna
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Both the llama and the alpaca are domesticated forms long believed to be descended from the guanaco, a wild camelid.
