• Originate from Central plains of North America about 10 million years ago

• Migrated to South America, while members of camel family became extinct in North America

• Wool• Packing (can carry 80 pounds or

25% of body weight!)• Showing/exhibiting• Driving carts• Meat

• 15 to 29 years

• 20 - 35 pounds

• 250 - 450 pounds

• 5 - 6.5 feet tall at head

• Two

• Brown, black, peach, white, grey or spotted; they may be 22 different colors

• A newborn llama

•A sitting position

• A cousin to the llama, they are smaller in size

• An alpaca with straight fiber that falls from the body that looks like dredlocks

• A huacaya alpaca has puffy hair, like a poodle