### animal | vertebrate | mammal | ungulate:

Llama
* Many llamas live without any shelter but trees.
* Most llamas are evolved from ancestors.
* Most llamas carry babies
  - weight
  - chew food
  - consume food
  - display aggressive behavior
* Most llamas eat bales
  - grass
  - hay
  - exhibit abnormal behavior
* Most llamas give birth during daylight
  - to offspring
  - grow cells
* Most llamas has-part bones
  - follicles
  - incisors
  - legs
  - stomachs
  - toes
  - tongues
* Most llamas have blood
  - coats
  - double coats
  - growth
  - humps
  - long necks
  - neck wool
  - senses
* Most llamas live in areas
  - on ground
  - now are kept in captivity, so they are protected from most predators
  - possess hair
  - provide prey
* Most llamas reach full height
  - require water
  - spend their days feeding on shrubs, mosses, lichens and grasses
  - take food
  - transmit sound
* Some llamas are descended from guanacos.
* Some llamas are inside meadows
  - pens
  - zoos
  - located on ground
* Some llamas carry equipment
  - freight
  - load
  - materials
  - do require supplemental feed
  - give birth to animals
  - has-part teeth
* Some llamas have cousins
  - domesticate cousins
  - stomach compartments
* Some llamas live in fields
  - on farms
  - make piles
  - play in fields
  - possess wool
  - protect lambs
  - require fences
  - resemble animals
* Some llamas show abnormalities
  - symptoms
  - sit in positions
  - suffer from diseases
  - survive in temperature
  - thrive in pasture
  - weigh pounds
* are alcoholics
  - among the earliest domesticated animals in the world
* are an important part of Central Oregon's economy and lifestyle
  - increasingly popular pack animal, and are available for rent locally
  - animals of altitude and require careful management to prevent heat-related problems
  - as strong as horses and have been used as pack animals for centuries
  - beautiful, wonderful animals
  - brown to black, or white, usually irregularly blotched with a darker color
  - browsers, they like to eat a variety of things
  - by nature very intelligent, gentle, and quiet animals
  - capable of pets
  - clean and intelligent
  - considered mature enough for breeding between two and three years of age
  - cousins to the camel
  - cud-chewers
  - easy to raise, can be handled by anyone and are safe around children and seniors
* are efficient foragers They have less impact on plant life than the native deer
* are extremely easy to care for regarding feed
  - hardy and adaptable to most climates, altitudes and conditions
  - intelligent, gentle, well-mannered, and clean animals
  - intilligent animals, and are much like having a pet dog or cat
  - fairly easy to maintain
* are generally easy to care for
  - powerful in their profession, and are tools of death for many
  - very curious, smart and gentle animals to work with
  - graceful creatures with large eyes and a gentle character
  - grazers as well as browsers, eating on grasses and forbs
  - great working partners and family pets
  - hard working critters and liked to keep moving
  - hardy animals that are generally disease-free and resistant
  - herbivores, which means they are plant eaters
  - herbivorous animals that partake in grazing and browsing activities
* are herd animals and are excellent at communicating with each other
  - thrive best in their own company
  - belonging to the camelid family
  - animals, and very much desire the companionship of other llamas
  - in their pasture during the day
  - individuals, with characters which differ as much as that of any human
* are inexpensive to keep
* are intelligent and easy to train
  - interesting animals that have enriched our lives in many ways
* are intelligent animals and they can be easily trained as compared to other domestic animals
  - that make outstanding pets and companions
  - creatures and require only a handful of repetitions to learn a new behavior
  - social animals needing a companion, exercise, and a source of being
* are intelligent, gentle, and extremely inquisitive
  - social animals that do better without any fuss
* are larger than frogs
  - then their alpaca cousins
  - legendary for their guarding instincts
  - like potato chips
  - low maintenance and easy to take care of
  - mammals
  - members of the camelid family, which at one time thrived on the plains of North America
  - modified ruminants with a three- compartment stomach
  - more independent and are often kept separate from other llamas
  - most popular in the U.S. as pets and companions
  - much easier to feed and care for than most livestock
  - multi-purpose animals
  - multicellular organisms
* are native to South America
  - cool areas of South America
  - the mountainous region of south America
  - part of the camel family
  - prey animals, the same as sheep are
  - prone to lower molar abcesses
  - quadrapeds
  - quiet, peaceful animals and make soft humming sounds to communicate
  - quirky-looking barnyard animals frequently seen munching crackers at a petting zoo
  - quite easy to care for when compared to other large animals
* are ruminants and chew cud, much like a cow
  - have a three-compartment stomach
  - with three stomachs
  - safe to have around other wildlife and stock
  - scent oriented, and from birth, they use communal dung piles
  - so peaceful and calm animals that even a kid can raise llamas without any help
* are social animals and like to stay in a herd
  - mainly live in herds in captivity
  - creatures and they enjoy the company of other llamas or kind caretakers
  - strange creatures
  - superb animals for companionship, wool, and packing
  - territorial by nature and are instinctively suspicious of canines
* are useful as guard animals for other livestock such as sheep and cows
  - guard animals for almost twice as long as most dogs
* are very athletic and like to run and play
  - communicative animals
  - graceful in their movements
  - hardy animals and are relativly disease free
  - low impact on their pasture environment
* are very sociable animals and enjoy being with other llamas in a herd
* are very social and require being with at least one other llama
  - herd animals - alpacas even more so
  - versatile animals, classified as livestock in most states
  - willing pack animals but only to a point
  - gear and supplies
  - gear, supplies and food
* come in a variety of colors, sizes and personalities just like people
  - colours from solid to multi-tone
* come in all colors, markings, shapes, sizes and price ranges
  - shapes and sizes and there wide range of acceptable weights
  - types, shapes and sizes
* come in many colours, so the fibre is much sought after by spinners and weavers
  - different shapes and sizes
  - sizes and shapes
* communicate by humming
  - with each other by ear position, body language, spitting and humming
* contribute much more than transportation to the human communities in which they live.
  - grass, hay, and grain, and as browsers, also like bark and twigs
* eat mainly grass, shrubs, and lichens
  - hay, grass, and grain when in captivity
* employ strategies.
* feel touch.
* give birth to offspring.
* graze in environments
  - habitats
  - regions
  - heads
* have a long, refined face with large nostrils set over the mouth at the terminus
  - much lower impact on the environment compared to horses and are very sure-footed
  - natural guarding instinct and require no training to become an effective guard animal
  - split upper lip and can move each side independently
  - stomach system similar to cattle and sheep
  - variety of types and colors of useful fiber
  - very good sense of smell but little body odor and their manure is almost odor free
  - about as much impact on the environment as large deer
* have an abundant fleece with a wide variation in color, quality and quantity
  - adorable way of laying down and tucking all four legs underneath themselves
  - extremely low impact on hiking trails and the environment
  - discreet bathroom habits
  - extremely bad breath
  - few medical problems and guard llama mortality is very low
  - five distinctive natural gaits
  - interesting personalities and just as humans, all differ
  - more red blood cells per unit volume of blood than any other mammal
* have no fixed oestrus cycle, but are induced ovulators
  - upper teeth in the front but have grinding upper and lower molars in the back
  - one young a year
  - remarkable variety in their body sizes and shapes
  - scent glands on the lower, outside of the rear legs and between the toes
  - some unique reproductive traits and physiology
  - to be the calmest, most tolerant livestock there is
* have two toes like a cow, but walk on pads and have toenails instead of hooves
  - types of fiber-guard hair and undercoat hair
  - unique blood that adapts well to the poor oxygen in the high altitudes where they live
  - very thick and long hair
* hoofed mammal
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cannon bones
  - cell membranes
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - hip sockets
  - hoofs
  - nuclei
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
* learn very quickly.
* lie down to rest and sleep.
  - throughout the Americas, Europe and Australia as domesticated livestock
* make quite a variety of sounds.
* need diets
  - fibre diets
  - high fibre diets
* possess cells
  - fur
* prefer to use a bare area of just dirt on the ground for rolling.
* provide an easy way to enjoy the outdoors, especially for people with physical limitations
  - meat, fiber and are used for transporting heavy loads
  - wool, prized for making blankets, ponchos, carpet and rope
* require little attention because they feed with the animals they are protecting
  - space
  - much less to drink than most pack stock
* roam ground
  - plateaus
* seem to bring out the personality of the shyest person
  - sense the needs of others and are giving and gentle animals
* serve well as durable pack animals.
* shake heads.
* share pasture.
* show behavior.
* stand about four feet high at the shoulders.
* tend to eat tall, coarse bunchgrasses and low-growing grasses
  - toe out
* to adapt to conditions
  - harsh conditions
* usually guard sheep, but they have also been used to guard geese, ducks, deer, and cattle.
* vary in colors from all white to all black.
* visit fields.
* yield bountiful fleece that can be woven into wool clothing to wear or sell for income.