llama
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The adorable baby llama is a Kyrgyzstan superstar.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
Soft know-it-alls from the city and phonies of any stripe receive rough treatment in his shows, such as the llama farmer from California who gets thrown under a Montana cattle guard in “Yellowstone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
On certain occasions, a llama fetus is added to the mix.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2025
Bluetongue can affect ruminants, such as sheep, cattle, goats and deer, and camelids like llama and alpaca.
From BBC ● May 6, 2024
The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vicunas are the smallest members of the camel family and a relative of llamas and alpacas.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
When we spoke a few years ago, he was splitting his time between northern Virginia and a farm in Wales, where he and his wife were raising llamas.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
This license allows her to operate her Missouri zoo, Sunrise Beach Safari, where guests can hold sloths, see kangaroos and feed llamas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024
This fanciful vision of New York is populated by animals: sporty ducks, punk rock monkeys, buffalo mail carriers, penguins shouldering boomboxes, and a disproportionate number of llamas.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
Five thousand years after llamas had been domesticated in the Andes, the Olmecs, Maya, Aztecs, and all other native societies of Mexico remained without pack animals and without any edible domestic mammals except for dogs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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South America - Middle School
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