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Vicuña, the Glossary

The vicuña (Lama vicugna) or vicuna (both, very rarely spelled vicugna, its former genus name) is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations.^[1]

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Andean studies
Camelids
Mammals described in 1782
National symbols of Peru
Taxa named by Juan Ignacio Molina
Wool animals

Alpaca

The alpaca (Lama pacos) is a species of South American camelid mammal. Vicuña and alpaca are camelids, mammals of Argentina, mammals of Bolivia, mammals of Chile, mammals of Peru, mammals of the Andes and wool animals.

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Alpine tundra

Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Angora rabbit

The Angora rabbit (Ankara tavşanı), one of the most ancient groups of domestic rabbit breeds, which is bred for the long fibers of its coat, known as Angora wool. They are gathered by shearing, combing or plucking. Vicuña and Angora rabbit are wool animals.

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Antofagasta Region

The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's sixteen first-order administrative divisions.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.

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Atmosphere of Earth

The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Camelidae

Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda. Vicuña and Camelidae are camelids.

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Cashmere goat

A cashmere goat is a type of goat that produces cashmere wool, the goat's fine, soft, downy, winter undercoat, in commercial quality and quantity.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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CITES

CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.

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Coat of arms of Peru

The Coat of arms of Peru is the national symbolic emblem of Peru. Vicuña and Coat of arms of Peru are national symbols of Peru.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas. Vicuña and cougar are mammals of the Andes.

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Culpeo

The culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), also known as Culpeo zorro, Andean zorro, Andean fox, Paramo wolf, Andean wolf,Comparative ecology of two South American foxes, 'Dusicvon ariseus' and 'Culpaeus' by Warren E. Johnson. Vicuña and culpeo are mammals described in 1782, mammals of Argentina, mammals of Bolivia, mammals of Chile, mammals of Peru and mammals of the Andes.

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Department of Ayacucho

Ayacucho, known as Huamanga from its creation in 1822 until 1825, is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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El Tatio

El Tatio is a geothermal field with many geysers located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at above mean sea level.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Festuca

Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae).

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Gestation

Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).

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Greenlandian

In the geologic time scale, the Greenlandian is the earliest age or lowest stage of the Holocene Epoch or Series, part of the Quaternary.

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Guanaco

The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama. Vicuña and guanaco are camelids, mammals of Argentina, mammals of Bolivia, mammals of Chile, mammals of Peru, mammals of the Andes and wool animals.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Juan Ignacio Molina

Fr.

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Jujuy Province

Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia.

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La Molina District

The district of La Molina is one of the forty-three districts that make up the province of Lima, located in the department of the same name, in Peru.

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La Paz

La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

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Lama (genus)

Lama is a genus containing the extant South American camelids: the wild guanaco and vicuña and the domesticated llama, alpaca, and chilihueque. Vicuña and Lama (genus) are camelids.

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Late Pleistocene

The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.

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Lima

Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of national animals

This is a list of countries that have officially designated one or more animals as their national animals.

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Llama

The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era. Vicuña and llama are camelids, mammals of Bolivia, mammals of Peru and mammals of the Andes.

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Loro Piana

Loro Piana is an Italian company specialising in clothing and textile products, claiming to be the world's largest cashmere manufacturer.

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Lucanas Province

Lucanas is the largest province in the Ayacucho Region in Peru.

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LVMH

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, commonly known as LVMH, is a French multinational holding company and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris.

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Mating

In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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National Agrarian University

The National Agrarian University, also formally called National Agrarian University – La Molina (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina) (UNALM), is a public university in Lima, Peru.

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National Zoological Park (United States)

The National Zoological Park, commonly known as the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States.

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Pampa Galeras – Barbara D'Achille National Reserve

Pampa Galeras – Barbara D’Achille is located in the Lucanas Province of the Ayacucho Region in Peru.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Salar de Chalviri

Salar de Chalviri, also known as Salar de Ohalviri, is a salt flat in the heart of Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, in the Sur Lípez Province, Potosí Department, in southwest Bolivia.

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San Pedro de Atacama

San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region.

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Shahtoosh

Shahtoosh (from Persian شاهتوش 'king of wools'), also known as Shatoush, is a wool obtained from the fur of the chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii, also called Tibetan antelope).

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Sheep shearing

Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Tibetan antelope

The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (pronounced) is a medium-sized bovid native to the northeastern Tibetan plateau. Vicuña and Tibetan antelope are wool animals.

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Ulla Ulla National Reserve

The Ulla Ulla National Reserve - which today is part of Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area - was created in 1972 with an extension of 240,000 ha, a biosphere reserve located in the Franz Tamayo Province, in the Department of La Paz in western Bolivia.

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United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats in the United States.

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Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicuña

Also known as Convention on the Conservation and Management of the Vicuña, Convention on the Conservation of the Vicuña, Lama vicugna, Vicugna vicugna, Vicuñas, Vicunna, Vicunya.

, Shahtoosh, Sheep shearing, South America, Tibetan antelope, Ulla Ulla National Reserve, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Wool.

Vicuña, the Glossary

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See also

Andean studies

Camelids

Mammals described in 1782

National symbols of Peru

Taxa named by Juan Ignacio Molina

Wool animals

References