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  Llama - Llama glama
Llamas have unique blood that adapts well to the poor oxygen in the high altitudes where they live.
The wool from the llama was used to make coarse woolen blankets for the common people, and their meat was eaten.
Llamas are social animals and mainly live in herds in captivity.
www.blueplanetbiomes.org /llama.htm   (886 words)

  
 Llama and Alpaca Farming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The llama, the largest of the types, is used as a beast of burden, as a fiber source, and as a meat source in South America.
Llamas are usually shorn annually and have a double-hair coat consisting of a fine wool fiber intermingled with stiff guard hairs.
Llamas are transported in trailers specifically designed for llamas, horse trailers, airport buses, school buses, full size buses with an area for llamas, pick-up trucks with cages, vans, mini-vans, and back seats of cars.
www.attra.org /attra-pub/llamaalpaca.html   (4821 words)

  
 Pack Animals on The Colorado Trail
Positive control of the llama is making certain that 1) his halter is securely buckled, 2) the lead rope is securely attached to the halter, and 3) the other end of the lead rope is securely attached to a tie out or held properly in your hand.
The llamas are picketed and are free to move around in an extended circle, as they drag the picket line and their leads.
Llamas need to learn to be "rope wise." If you have an inexperienced llama, he might get tangled in his lead rope and you should keep an eye on him.
www.coloradotrail.org /packanimals.html   (3219 words)

  
 Llama - Uncyclopedia
Llamas are occasionally used by humans as contraceptives because with llamas you don't pay extra for fur or ridges.
Llamas are mostly known for their role in directing Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Llamas have humps full of water, and exist mostly in the desert (not to be confused with dessert).
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Llama   (2339 words)

  
 Breeds of Livestock - Llama
Llamas were domesticated from guanacos in the Andean Highlands of Peru 4,000-5,000 years ago, and are among the oldest domestic animals in the world.
Llamas are a modified ruminant with a three-compartment stomach.
Health.....Because llamas and their ancestors are specially suited to the harsh environment of their Andean homeland, North American owners will find them hardy, healthy, easy to care for, and remarkably disease-free.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/other/llama   (425 words)

  
 Llama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Llamas are very social herd animals and spitting is a part of that.
The llama is the official mascot of Simon's Rock College due to the proximity of the college soccer fields to a llama farm.
Cama, a breed between a llama and a Camel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Llama   (2305 words)

  
 Llama
Llamas are 40 to 50 inches high at the withers and 60 to 72 inches tall at the poll.
Llamas have characteristically high-cut flanks accented by a pendulous abdomen and a slightly forward-leaning carriage.
Llamas are quite hardy, although they are susceptible to many of the same diseases and parasites as cattle and sheep.
www.ag.ndsu.edu /pubs/alt-ag/llama.htm   (2394 words)

  
 LLAMA WOOL
Llama charqui (jerked meat) nourishes them, its fleece keeps them warm, the hide is used for crude sandals, the long guard hairs for ropes, and burning the carbon peruano (dried excrement) wards off the chill of the high country.
Their immense I llama and alpaca flocks were thoroughly classified for uniformity in age, sex, and color on "quipu," a ledger made of knotted strings.
Wool samples from 39 U.S. llamas tested by the University of California at Santa Cruz during the 1984 ILA conference in that city averaged 20-22 microns in diameter.
www.llama-llocater.com /llama_wool.html   (2462 words)

  
 Llama Care Considerations and Breeding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Llamas are not "thrown" and shorn as sheep are.
However, if the llama needs it, a consideration when looking at llamas is whether the llama has been trained to let you easily lift his feet calmly.
Unless a llama has been terribly ill treated, and raised not to respect people, it is only at each other to establish the "pecking" order, or to warn another llama that it is too close to his feed bowl, or getting too personal.
www.highacresllamas.com /care.html   (1544 words)

  
 Llama Packing, Llama packs and Llama training
And 15 years ago, he began to hold private llama training seminars to educate current and prospective llama owners how to select and train llamas for packing.
Llamas are very quiet, very friendly to the environment and do not destroy trails.
After so many years of llama hiking and packing with his llamas, Rudy decided that it was time to put his llama training methods into a booklet.
www.llamapacking.com   (859 words)

  
 Digimorph - Lama glama (llama)
The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated descendent of the guanaco (L.
The llama ranges from 1.2 m to 2.2 m in length with a tail length of 15 cm to 25 cm.
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 10 February 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 426 slices, each slice 0.7 mm thick with an interslice spacing of 0.7 mm.
www.digimorph.org /specimens/Lama_glama   (575 words)

  
 Guardian Llama Placement Program
To eliminate the loss/injury of llamas and livestock to predators because of improper placement of inadequate or young llamas.
To educate both the llama industry and alternate livestock industries as to the criteria for properly screened and placed guardian llamas.
Unfortunately, most llama breeders are not educated enough as to the type of llama that meets guard llama criteria when they market their culled animals as guards.
www.llamaweb.com /Services/GLPP/GLPP.html   (536 words)

  
 El Paseo Llama Expeditions
El Paseo Llama Expeditions offers llama trekking outdoor recreation adventures that are fun, exciting, healthful and environmentally friendly in the uncrowded and pristine mountain wilderness of the Sangre de Christo Mountains and in the Wild Rivers Recreation Area of Northern New Mexico.
Llama trekking is hiking and camping in the wilderness with a furry four legged buddy to carry your gear and your kids, alert you to the presence of wild life, eat from your hand and keep you company.
Llama trekking will allow you to indulge your passion in the wild, i.e., away from the track or path you use all year.
www.elpaseollama.com   (1425 words)

  
 Llama Uses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Llamas are natural browsers, meaning that as they graze they are taking a bit here and there and leave little trace of their passing.
Llamas can be shorn annually or bi-annually, depending upon the growth rate of the llama's fiber and preferences of the owner.
Llama owners who have taken time to train their llamas to drive carts are receiving many benefits.
www.llama.org /do_llama.htm   (1235 words)

  
 Wonders of Llama Wool
alpacas produce one of the finest fibers known to man. Llamas were used as a beast of burden, and emphasis was placed on sturdy packing ability.
Because of the range of wool types present in the llama population, we are able to make a variety of things from llama wool.
Llama fiber contains no natural oils or lanolin, making it light and yielding 90% to 93% of its original weight when processed.
www.mor-llama.com /Wool.htm   (715 words)

  
 Llama Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
Llamas have a life span of 15 to 28 years.
Anatomy: Llamas are very strong mammals that have two-toed feet with toenails on the top and with pads on the bottom.
Llamas are 3 to 4 feet (0.9 to 1.2 m) tall at the shoulder.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/camel/Llamaprintout.shtml   (198 words)

  
 Llamapaedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Llamas are physically distinct from other livestock in a number of ways.
Llamas are very social animals with a variety of personalities who can strongly interact with their environment.
Llama reproduction is a mystery to some breeders.
www.llamapaedia.com   (654 words)

  
 The Llama Q & A Page — Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Alpacas and llamas have been domesticated for approximately 4,000 years, whereas guanacos and vicuñas are mostly found in herds in the wild.
Llamas don’t particularly like to be shut up in a barn, but we usually keep newborns and their moms in overnight if the weather is either very wet or very cold.
Llamas don’t particularly like to be shut up in the penetrated space of a barn, but the dysfunctional group usually keep newborns and their moms in the penetrated space of overnight if the weather is semiotically either very wet or very cold.
personal.smartt.com /~brianp/index.html   (2559 words)

  
 Bonny Doon Llama Packs - About Our Packs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Bonny Doon Llama Packs produces the only pack on the market that combines both hard and soft pack technologies, concepts borrowed from the high-tech mountaineering industry.
Representing more than 25 years of llama packing experience, The Larrabee Pack is made for the serious llama packer.
A half-inch felted wool spine guard keeps the llama's spine protected and not involved in carrying the load.
www.llamapacks.com /aboutpacks.htm   (557 words)

  
 Llama Wool
Llama charqui (jerked meat) nourishes them, its fleece keeps them warm, the hide is used for crude sandals,
Llamas with a heavy coat of guard hair must be de-haired in processing, or the yarn will be quite itchy as the coarse hair ends poke
Llama Farm that carries hand-spun Ilama yarn as well as hand-spun alpaca from South America.
www.mor-llama.com /llama_wool.htm   (2180 words)

  
 Llama 101
The Llama Cluster is a collection of Intel-based personal computers, connected to one another by a network switch.
Currently Llama consists of 40 CPUs (12 nodes are dual-processor 3GHz, 4 are dual-processor Intel Xeon 2.4GHz, and 4 nodes are dual processor AMD Athlon 1.5 GHz) 17 dual-processor Pentium-III 933MHz and four dual-CPU 1.8GHz machines, each running the Linux operating system.
You may want to check it out if you run into problems getting your program to run on the Llama (most people do, that's where the FAQ came from!).
llama.med.harvard.edu /Llama101.html   (1714 words)

  
 Mount Lehman Llamas
plants that may be poisonous to llamas and a new version with photos of poisonous plants.
There is also a section on llama fibre with knitting patterns, kits for making hats, dyeing instructions, and much more.
Back in May of 1995 we were featured in an article in Llamas Magazine and we have reprinted it on our site figuring that most folks reading this won’t have a copy of that magazine handy.
www.mountlehmanllamas.com   (954 words)

  
 Alpaca and Llama
Llamas (Lama glama) and alpacas (Lama pacos) are members of the Camelid family, which also includes the vicuna (Lama vicunga) and guanaco (Lama guanicoe).
Their inclusion in this family is based upon their characteristic traits of being hornless, cud-chewing ruminants with an even number of toes and padded feet.
Llamas and alpacas may be collectively referred to as “lamas.”;
www.mda.state.mn.us /mgo/livestock/alpaca_llama.htm   (155 words)

  
 Llama Meat - ExoticMeats.Com Order Meat Online
The llama is primarily used in the Andes and in Peru as a pack animal or for meat.
The word "jerky" that we use today to refer to beef jerky, is one of the few words in our language originating from the Quechua language.
"Ch'arki" is the name of the llama meat which was salted and sun-dried.The taste is somewhere between beef and lamb, though closer to beef.
www.exoticmeats.com /store/index.php?cPath=24_66   (183 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/llamapage
Born out of necessity in mid 2005, LLAMA seemingly appeared out of nowhere, eyes open and ready to breathe the rarified air of the rock 'n roll willing.
Made up of the crumbling vestiges of Pure Joy and the Model Rockets, LLAMA gives face to low-grade mental affliction and caustic pustule-like musical expression.
It was a birthday gift from MW Jones and rumor has it we might catch a listen at the High Dive sometime soon.
www.myspace.com /llamapage   (383 words)

  
 JNK Llama Farm
Niki was one of the first llama 4-H and FFA youth in Washington State.
As we have done llama rescue from less than ideal situations, we understand the problems that come about when a new owner is sold a llama that they are not totally educated about.
Llamas that excel in not only halter, but performance and public relations settings.
www.nas.com /~jnkllamas   (604 words)

  
 Lama photos taken in Chile
The llama on the left is not exactly in an area with great grazing, while the alpaca on the right has some fairly decent pasture.
I visited a llama farm near Temuco, which is a small city in the southern part of Chile, between Santiago and Puerto Montt.
They had gone up in the mountains of the northern parts of Chile and selected the best llamas that they could find and had a large herd who obviously were doing well with all the lush grass in that area.
www.mountlehmanllamas.com /chilephotos.html   (543 words)

  
 Llama Marketplace, where to go to learn how to market your llamas.
The heart of Llama Marketplace is selling off the farm in an atmosphere YOU control.
The Llama Marketplace was distributed in California, Oregon, Washington and BC.
That is why we are in the feed stores, to introduce llamas to the general public and let them know where they can buy some and where they can get information about them.
www.toledotel.com /~llamas   (342 words)

  
 Llama Directory
Just 3 days after joining the Llama Directory, I received a phone call from a women interested in my llamas from a neighboring state.
She bought a llama from me and she found me through the Llama Directory.
Llama Directory members can post events, including open barns, private seminars, private treaty sales, or carting clinics.
www.llamadirectory.com   (659 words)

  
 Rogue llama on the loose in Vancouver suburb
Rogue llama on the loose in Vancouver suburb
A lone llama has been roaming the fields of Pitt Meadows since last week, managing to evade capture and creating a stir in the suburban community.
The SPCA is continuing to monitor the llama and its condition, and suggests that people not approach it.
www.cbc.ca /canada/british-columbia/story/2006/08/23/bc-llama.html   (1234 words)

  
 The Llama Song - This song is not suitable for people who dislike llamas, but we must definitely say this is the ...
The Llama Song - This song is not suitable for people who dislike llamas, but we must definitely say this is the coolest song around.
This song is not suitable for people who dislike llamas, but we must definitely say this is the coolest song around.
This flash movie is a hilarious song featuring different species of llamas.
the-llama-song.freeonlinegames.com   (93 words)

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