Llama

The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated camelid widely used for wool, meat, and pack. Llamas are very social and lives with others in a herd. The wool of a llama is very soft and contains little lanolin. As a pack animal, they can carry about 25 to 30% of their body weight for 8 to 13 km. The ancestors of llamas are thought to originate from the central plains of North America about 40 million years ago and subsequently migrated to South America about 3 million years ago during the Great American Interchange. By the end of the last ice age, camelids became extinct at North America. It have been long thought that the guanaco was the parent species of the llama.