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The adult males will protect sheep and hens from animals that might attack them, like dogs or foxes. Guide: And sometimes farmers use them as guard dogs, I mean guard llama. You go on a picnic and use a llama to carry your food. They make good pets and sometimes they're used for trekking. Guide: Yes, there are quite a lot of llamas and alpaca in the UK. They hum when they are stressed, or the opposite, feeling relaxed. They don't open their mouths, they just make this strange noise. Teenager 2: I think I can hear this llama making a noise. When they are in the desert they survive by licking the water off the cacti and other desert plants. They are capable of surviving at over 4,000 metres in the Andes. They are similar to the vicuñas, but larger and stronger. For that reason the wool's very expensive.Īnd, lastly, we have the guanacos. It is even softer than alpaca wool but vicuñas can only be shorn of their wool every three years. Guide: Have you heard of the Incas? The ancient rulers of Latin America who lived in the Andes? Well, they wore clothes made from vicuña wool – only the royal family were allowed to wear the wool. Vicuñas are very elegant and graceful creatures. This resource also comes with an answer sheet so you can easily check whether your children have completed the task successfully. An example of these include: Turtle - Hatchling. As I said before, these animals are wild and they are thought to be the ancestors of the alpacas. Our Mother and Baby Animals Matching Cards consist of twenty different animals that your class then has to match with the correct baby. Right, next to the alpacas we have the vicuñas. There's a big demand for alpaca wool from the fashion industry. Guide: The alpaca is famous for its wool, which is softer and warmer than sheep's wool. They've got smaller faces and they always look as though they are smiling. As you can see, they are smaller than the llamas. They respond well to being trained and they are usually gentle and curious. Guide: But if you treat them properly they are not likely to. You don't want to mistreat a llama it might even spit some of the contents of its stomach at you. All members of the camelid family sometimes spit. Teenager 1: Don't they spit at people, though? Kids will use their sorting and categorizing skills to help them match the baby animal to its adult form by looking at their shapes and colors. Llamas are very sociable animals and live together in groups, in herds. Llamas are the biggest animal – they can grow up to 1.8 metres tall and in the past they were used to carry things. Llamas and alpacas are both domesticated animals and vicuñas and guanacos are wild. And over there alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos. Llamas, which you have probably heard of, over here. Zoo guide: OK, are we all together? Right, next we're going to look at the llamas, but actually here we have four different animals which are all from South America and all related to camels.