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Guanaco

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Mammals
Guanaco

A wild camelid that inhabits the steppes, scrublands and mountainous regions of South America, found on the altiplano of Peru, Bolivia and Chile and across the open grassland of Patagonia, where it remains the region's most numerous large native herbivore. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Herbivore 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 1
Relationship to People
Domesticated 2
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Derived from this species' own Conservation Status: this atlas's IUCN category list has no Extinct value, so a set conservation-status is itself evidence of living status (w-bfill-g5-0924 browse backfill).
Scientific Name
Lama guanicoe 1
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Population Estimate
1,750,000 1
2016 estimates place the total around 1.5 to 2 million, dominated by Argentina (1,225,000 to 1,890,000) with smaller populations in Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.
Connections

Associated With

Vicuña, Species
Source Vicuña (Wikipedia)

Child Taxon Of

Artiodactyla, Taxa
Source Catalogue of Life

In Biome

Alpine, Biomes
Source Guanaco (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

Patagonian Steppe, Ecosystems
Source Guanaco (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: Llama, the same subject.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: South America, found in there.
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Ukraine, found in there.
Sources
1. Guanaco (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Distribution section
    Guanacos inhabit the steppes, scrublands and mountainous regions of South America. They are found in the altiplano of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and in Patagonia
  • Taxobox
  • Lead section IPA
  • Conservation status section
    Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
  • Population section
    Estimates, as of 2016, place their numbers around 1.5 to 2 million animals
  • Diet (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    A wild camelid that inhabits the steppes, scrublands and mountainous regions of South America, found on the altiplano of Peru, Bolivia and Chile and across the open grassland of Patagonia, where it remains the region's most numerous large native herbivore.
  • System/realm (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
    A wild camelid that inhabits the steppes, scrublands and mountainous regions of South America, found on the altiplano of Peru, Bolivia and Chile and across the open grassland of Patagonia, where it remains the region's most numerous large native herbivore.
  • In Biome: Alpine
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2. Wikipedia: Guanaco
Wikipediasystem (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly, relationship to people)
Quote, system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly, relationship to people)
The guanaco is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the domesticated llama.
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Wikidata: Guanaco
Wikidata Q172886, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Vicuña (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Vicuña, Opening paragraph, taxonomic history
Quote, Associated With: Vicuña, Opening paragraph, taxonomic history
the llama and the alpaca were regarded as descendants of the closely related guanaco
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Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeChild Taxon Of: ArtiodactylaView the Source
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