Vicunas are alert and shy animals that flee very rapidly. They are capable of running 47 km/hr at an elevation of 4,500 meters. Movement is extremely graceful compared to any other hoofed animal. When in danger, vicunas make a clear, whistling sound.
Vicuna is a species of long-necked sheep native to South America, bearing some resemblance to the guanaco, but the fur is shorter, closer and much finer.
Smallest of all camels is the vicuna. This animal stands only 90cm (30 ins) at the shoulder and weighs no more than 50kg (110lb). Once widespread on the higher plains of the Andes, the vicuna has been seriously reduced in numbers due to over-hunting.
One group is found in South America and consists of the alpaca, llama, vicunas, and guanacos. The other group is found in Africa and Asia and consists of the camels (bactrian and dromedarian).
Only guanacos and vicunas may be found wild in the New World today. Llamas and alpacas have been domesticated. Camels exist only in the domesticated state in Africa and Asia.
these are to genera, the true camel is and the South American genus Lama, which includes the wild guanaco and vicuna and the domesticated alpaca and Llama .
Family Camelidae: camels, llamas, Vicuna
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Tragulidae: chevrotains
Family Giraffidae: Giraffe, Okapi
Family Moschidae: musk deer
Family Cervidae: true deer
Family Antilocapridae: Pronghorn ...
FAMILY: Camelidae (camels, llamas, and vicunas)
GENUS/SPECIES: Camelus bactrianus and C. dromedarius
(Bactrian and Dromedary) ...
Miller, S. D., J. D. Rottmann, and R. D. Taber. 1973. Dwindling and endangered ungulates of Chile: Vicuna, Lama, Hippocamelus, and Pudu. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resource Conference; 38: 55-68.
The term camel is also used more broadly, to describe any of the six camel-like creatures in the family Camelidae: the two true camels, and the four South American camelids: Llama, Alpaca, Guanaco and Vicuna.
Llamas (lama glama) are one of four types of camelids including: alpaca, guanaco and vicuna.
Rueppell's griffon (Gyps rueppellii)
Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna)
Fox kestrel (Falco alopex)
Golden-plumed parakeet (Leptosittaca branickii)
Rosy starling (Sturnus roseus)
Pied wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka) ...
The group is divided into three basic subgroups based on the anatomy of their stomach. These include the ruminants (cattle, goats, deer, sheep and antelope), pseudo ruminants (camels, llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco) and the non-ruiminants (pigs, ...
 See also: Camel, Alpaca, Llama, Guanaco, Dromedary
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