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Llama's wild uncle: tougher, faster, and never domesticated by anyone.
means A wild South American camelid, native to the Andes and Patagonian plains, that's the ancestor of the domesticated llama.
from Borrowed from Spanish "guanaco," which came from the Quechua word "wanaku," the Indigenous Andean name for the animal — one of many Quechua words (alongside "llama," "vicuña," and "puma") that Spanish absorbed wholesale after contact, since no European language had names for creatures no European had seen.
- relation
- wild ancestor of the llama, not vice versa
- top speed
- can run up to 56 km/h
- range
- survives from sea level to 5,000 meters
- defense
- spits stomach contents when annoyed