Llamas have long shaggy coats that vary in color from white all over through spotted or speckled, to brown, black, or red all over. Llamas are located from southern Peru to northwestern Argentina. They inhabit mountains and upland plateaus at altitudes of more than 10,000 feet.
Llamas are grazers as well as browsers, eating on grasses and forbs.
The social structure is such that llamas tend to live in small groups of 7-16 individuals with a dominant male having a harem of females. Included in the groups are young that are no older than 13 months. Though some females and their young form their own sub-groups in the winter, the male defends all the whole territory from other males as well as predators. Breeding occurs in the spring. Females give birth to a single young after a 10-month gestation period.