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	Guanaco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) (sometimes spelled Guanco) is an elegant, fine-boned lamoid animal that stands approximately 3 ft 6" (1.06 m) at the shoulder and weighs about 200 lb (90 kg).
		Like the llama, the guanaco is double coated with a coarse guard hair and soft undercoat, which is even finer and thus more highly prized than that of the alpaca, although they carry far less of it.
		The guanaco is common to South America: in Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guanaco (238 words)

	ROYAL FIBERS - Guanacos Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The guanaco is one of South America's largest land dwelling mammals, reaching its maximum size in Magallanes with a total adult length of 5.77-6.63 feet (average 6.23), an average weight of 250 kg (200-300 lb), and a shoulder height of 3.6-3.8 feet.
		Guanaco are often pushed into marginal habitats by the pressure of livestock activities, and hunting by native peoples who prize their pelts and meat.
		Guanaco populations have been slashed by culling to protect pasture for sheep, commercial hunting of baby guanacos, fodder shortages in winter due to overgrazing by sheep, fencing that blocked seasonal migrations and became a fatal trap for guanacos attempting to cross it, and deforestation.
	www.onramp113.com /royalfibers/guanfaq.htm (1481 words)

	The Vicuna Collection (Guanaco Merino Blend Yarn)
		Guanaco is one of the worlds most exclusive fibres, very similar to vicuna, much sought after for use in the worlds best coats and suits.
		Guanaco have a double coat similar to cashmere; the under coat is a fine fibre one of the finest natural fibres in the world, and boasts a uniform and very pale camel colour.
		Guanaco fibre must go through the dehairing process which removes these coarser guard hairs and leaves the downy undercoat which is the valued part of the fleece.
	www.alpacas1.com /Details.cfm?ProdID=111&category=7 (289 words)

	Wikipedia: Requests for adminship - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guanaco has been an admin for quite some time, but has been asked to reapply for adminship by the arbitration committee.
		Guanaco blocked Cantus in error, believing that he had violated 3RR "probation" when in fact his reverts were spaced out enough to be, technically, in compliance with the 3RR.
		Guanaco did not, to my knowledge, show himself to be open to discussion of his controversial actions, nor did he stop after several challenges from other users.
	open-encyclopedia.com /RfA (9148 words)

	3.14 Camelids
		Guanaco are often pushed into marginal habitats by the pressure of livestock activities (93, 193, 217, 245, 488).
		Guanaco populations have been slashed by culling to protect pasture for sheep, commercial hunting of baby guanacos, fodder shortages in winter due to overgrazing by sheep, fencing that blocked seasonal migrations and became a fatal trap for guanacos attempting to cross it, and deforestation (93, 145, 191, 193, 488).
		The key factors in guanaco management are probably primary production and food availability for these affect: land carrying capacity; the effect of density-dependence on fertility; the extension of adequate environments in the management areas; the effect of migration on population; and various socio-economic aspects (486).
	www.fao.org /docrep/T0750E/t0750e0m.htm (2994 words)

	The Living Edens "Patagonia" -- Wildlife
		Guanacos live in groups, usually a single dominant male accompanied by up to 10 females and their young.
		Though at one time guanacos were significant resources for Patagonian Indians, food and hide hunters decimated the guanaco population from the late 19th century onward.
		Guanacos and llamas are descendants of a jackrabbit-size animal that originated in North America more than 40 million years ago.
	www.pbs.org /edens/patagonia/torresan.htm (834 words)

	Origin of SA Camelids
		Both guanaco (Lama glama cacsilensis) and vicuña (Vicugna vicugna mensalis) have inhabited this tundra environment for approximately 12,000 years and, together with the huemul deer Hippocamelus antisensis (d’Orbigny 1834), were the primary prey of early human hunters.
		Guanacos have rooted deciduous and permanent spatulate incisors with an enamel-covered crown (Miller 1924).
		Their results indicate that the alpaca descends from the vicuñ a and the llama from the guanaco; that the correct classification of these forms is Vicugna pacos and Lama glama respectively, and that such extensive hybridization has occurred that only 20% of alpacas and 60% of llamas are genetically pure.
	www.rmla.com /origin_of_sa_camelids.htm (4362 words)

	Buffalo Hill Exotics - Guanacos
		The graceful wild guanaco lives from snowline to sea level throughout the Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia and on the Pantagonian plateau of Argentina.
		Guanacos are a uniform color with fox red-rust bodies, white underbellies and pearl gray faces dominated by large, dark brown eyes.
		Of all the world's furbearing animals the guanaco's wool is second only in fineness to that of its wild cousin, the vicuna.
	www.buffalohillexotics.com /guanaco.html (263 words)

	GUANACO PHOTO
		The Guanaco mass was submitted for analysis to UCLA (J. Wasson), and elemental ratios were compared to those of the similar schreibersite-rich iron meteorite, La Primitiva, which was also found in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
		Therefore, Guanaco provides the requisite number of members needed to establish a new iron chemical group, and John T. Wasson has proposed that this new iron group be given the designation IIG - its members representing the most Ni-poor, P-rich meteorites of all iron groups.
		Guanaco has a Ni content of 4.79%, while that of other members of the group ranges from a low of 4.3% (Tombigbee River), to 4.5% (Bellsbank), to a high of 5.1% (La Primitiva, Twannberg).
	www.geocities.com /dgweir/protected_GUANACO.HTM (587 words)

	Definitions - Alabama Alpacas.com
		The guanaco and its relative, the vicuna, are wild, wool-bearing animals of South America.
		Guanacos live in groups in the dry foothills of the Andes Mountains in Peru, Chile, and Argentina, and on the Patagonian plateau in Argentina.
		The vicuna and guanaco are the wild members of the camel family in South America.
	www.merrill.org /alabamaalpacas/definition.html (1483 words)

	guanaco -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Herd of guanacos in eastern Patagonia, Valdés Peninsula, Argentina.
		In hunting rhea, guanaco, and other animals in open country, the bola is whirled like a sling, then thrown parallel to the ground to entwine the quarry's legs.
		Guanacos are gentle and live in the dry, high open country of western South America, from the prairies of Patagonia north through Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia to southern Peru.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9038295&query=alpaca&ct= (688 words)

	Guanaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guanacos are fast-running animals, but often succumb to predators because of their curiosity.
		Guanacos are exploited for their wool and meat.
		Hunting and competition for pasture from cattle and sheep have led to a decline in the population of guanacos.
	www.socogardenszoo.com /Guanaco.htm (299 words)

	Guanaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guanacos are elegant and fine boned and stand approximately 3ft6" (1.06m) at the shoulder and weigh around 200lb (91kg).
		Like the llama, the guanaco is double coated with a coarse guard hair and soft undercoat, which is even more highly prized that that of the alpaca, although they carry far less of it.
		A Dangerous Wild Animal Licence is required to keep guanacos, as, unlike llamas and alpacas they are not classified as "domestic" animals.
	www.llama.co.uk /guanaco.htm (140 words)

	Guanaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robin Pratt is a livestock farmer in Pembrokeshire who farms South American Guanaco, and has been a member of the Countryside Council for Wales since 1997.
		In the spectacular surroundings of Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the native guanaco -- a relative of the llama -- has made a comeback.
		Guanaco is a smart British-owned chalet in the Belvedere quartier of MÃ©ribel.
	www.wikiverse.org /guanaco (273 words)

	Guanaco Lore, Information about guanacos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Llamas were domesticated from the guanaco by about 4000 B.C. The guanaco is wild and endangered in much of its range, although attempts are now being made to protect them, especially in Argentina.
		The guanaco is both a grazer and a browser, and is quite adaptable.
		Some guanacos live in one of the driest deserts in the world (the Atacama in Chile) while others live in the wet archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, where rain falls year round.
	www.llamaweb.com /Guanacos/Info.html (508 words)

	Lama guanicoe - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		El guanaco (del quechua wanaku), denominación científica Lama guanicoe, es un animal silvestre, elegante, de huesos finos, con una altura aproximada de 1,06 metros y cerca de 91 kilogramos de peso.
		Hay zonas de los Andes en que los guanacos están considerados una especie en peligro, dado que son cazados por su carne, piel y lanas.
		Se hace esquila viva del guanaco para aprovechar su fibra, que va de 16 a 20 micrones de grosor.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guanaco (370 words)

	Guanaco - Joy UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guanaco is far superior to the very finest cashmere in everyway, and some cognoscenti prefer it to vicuna as the number one opulent fibre of choice.
		Guanaco is still a threatened species, and the import documents that Joy UK hold, show that the fleece has been harvested in the most ecological fashion possible.
		Guanaco fibre is only marginally coarser than vicuna, and is the world’s second most fine legal fibre, and comes from Peru and small parts of Patagonia.
	www.joyuk.com /guanaco.htm (281 words)

	Open Directory - Business:Agriculture and Forestry:Livestock:Camelids:Guanacos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guanaco are classified in the family Camilidae and are South America's largest land mammal.
		Guanaco can be found at altitudes ranging from sea level in Tierra del Fuego to 4000 metres along the Andes of northern Chile, Peru and Argentina.
		Guanaco have to cope with bleak winters, driving snow, freezing temperatures, fierce winds and a generally poor vegetation.
	dmoz.org /Business/Agriculture_and_Forestry/Livestock/Camelids/Guanacos/desc.html (350 words)

	Guanaco Numbers Continue to Dwindle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For decades, Patagonian ranchers have accused guanacos of causing diseases among livestock.
		At present, many guanacos fall prey to unregulated hunting where they are used to feed rancher's dogs, or provide inexpensive meat to local towns.
		Guanacos, members of the camel family can weigh up to 300 pounds and are known for their thick golden, brown coat.
	www.wcs.org /353624/195740 (527 words)

	Environmental affinity of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe Muller, Camelidae) in two selected areas of Central Patagonia ...
		To determine the guanacos' environmental affinity, the three land attributes were multiplied and the resulting number was ordered as a hierarchy of affinity.
		The facts suggest that the distribution of guanacos would be the result of the interaction between inter-species competition and processes of degradation, whether they are natural (slow) or man-made (faster).
		Raedeke K 1979: Populations dynamics and socio-ecology of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe) of Magallanes, Chile.
	esapub.esrin.esa.it /eoq/eoq55/vall55.htm (2864 words)

	Guanaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The climate of the Guanaco region ranges drastically because of the different land formations.
		The Guanaco region, with its diverse land area allows for a vast and interesting plethora of plant and animal life.
		Other plants that adapted to the Guanaco climate are sugar cane, potatoes, coffee, cotton, coca, yams, bread fruit, bananas, and all types of squash.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/geography/guanaco.html (281 words)

	Peace of Yarn
		Guanacos are a member of the camelid family being most closely related to the llama.
		The guanaco has a double coat consisting of guard hairs that keeps moisture and debris out, and a finer undercoat.
		Guanacos originate in the Andes Mountains in South America.
	www.peaceofyarn.com /guanaco.htm (257 words)

	Guanaco in Argentina
		Although guanaco are still the most abundant South American camelid, their numbers have dropped from seven million at the end of the 19th century to fewer than 600,000 today.
		The work on the guanaco was conducted at La Esperanza, a 13,000-acre wildlife refuge managed by the local NGO Fundación Patagonia Natural.
		To approach guanaco on foot, and remain unnoticed, is practically impossible.
	wcs.org /353624/198119 (320 words)

	Liama , Alpaca , Guanaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The semen taken from another kind is artificially poured into the female dromedary, and the female guanaco.
		Then, "Rama" was born although it was premature deliverry from the 6th femal guanaco.
		It seems that, as for his appearance and action, the dromedar and the guanaco are mixed.
	homepage1.nifty.com /dromedarius/e/eintro/e_lama.html (261 words)

	IWMC - The Guanaco as a Flag Species in the Reappraisal of Patagonia / June 1999
		In terms of the Convention, Argentina should establish a population assessment to ensure that the level of exploitation is not detrimental to the survival of the species.
		Despite their dramatically reduced numbers throughout their former range, guanacos continue to be an important and viable asset to local and regional economies.
		Other objectives are to promote the sustainable use of the guanaco through the shearing of live wild animals at the global level generating sample units of production alternatives in Patagonia, and determine the most favourable areas for sheering of wild guanacos at the regional and sub-regional scale.
	www.iwmc.org /newsletter/1999/99-06a.htm (633 words)

	Fossil Rim - Guanaco
		Guanaco are excellent swimmers and can run up to 30 mph.
		We brought the guanaco here in 2001 because of their reputation for protecting livestock from predators.
		Guanaco prefer dry open country either on the plains or in the mountains.
	www.fossilrim.org /animals/guanaco.php (153 words)

	Cory Chamblin::Guanaco Project Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guanaco is an open source content management tool developed by Cory Chamblin.
		Guanaco works by using the filesystems of a standard computer as the platform for categorization of web posts.
		Guanaco also has a weblogging feature built in, so you can have a blog directory, which it compiles into a single page, which it then publishes in the standard format.
	home.earthlink.net /~corychamblin/Pages/Guanaco (176 words)

	Science Show - 23/05/98: Birth of a new breed
		However, he has the cloven hooves of a guanaco, which are unlike the single footpad of the camel.
		Once the female guanaco had been inseminated with camel semen, she was kept in a fenced enclosure well away from male guanacos for the rest of the experiment.
		Guanaco and camel milk are known to be very similar in chemical composition.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s11024.htm (910 words)

	Basic articles: Pure Guanaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Guanaco is the South American Camelidae which can adapt itself to very different environmental conditions and places, from the Peruvian plateaux, the Argentinean pampas, to the Straits of Magellan.
		Nowadays, there are no certain data about the population of Guanacos but an estimate suggests that it is made up of a little more than 600.000 animals, which mostly live in Argentina (only few of them live in Chile, Bolivia and Peru).
		The Guanaco has always been considered a fur-bearing animal but its coat has recently begun to be used in manufacturing top-quality clothes thanks to the introduction of bloodless systems of capture, shearing and release of the wild animals.
	www.lanificiocolombo.it /english/t_guanaco.htm (227 words)

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