Vicuña
Vicugna vicugna · Mammal
The wild vicuña grazes the dry puna grasslands of the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, between about 3,200 and 4,800 metres, grazing by day and climbing higher at night. A male keeps a territory with 5 to 15 females and their young; puma are its main killer. Its wool is among the finest and dearest in the world, and under the Incas only the emperor and royalty might wear it. Villagers still drive wild herds into pens in the chaccu, shear them and let them go.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In families, by day
- Size
- Medium
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Gives
Sources
- Margaret Salter, Vicugna vicugna (vicuña). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2021.
- Vicuña. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Vigogne. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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