📸 PhotoPhoto: Sanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Guanaco
Lama guanicoe (Guanaco · グアナコ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its soft, warm wool is a prized luxury fiber on the international market; Argentina produces about 1,500 kg of Guanaco wool a year.
- 💡 Its maximum weight of 140 kg equals seven 20 kg bags of rice (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Guanaco is a wild South American camelid that has the widest distribution and occupies the most diverse habitats among the four camelid species there.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It has a long, slender neck and long legs. Its coat is light to dark reddish-brown, with white on the chest, belly, and inner legs, and a gray or black head.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It feeds on both shrubs and grasses, and when preferred food is scarce it also eats lichens, fungi, cacti, fruits, and flowers. A single territorial male leads a family group of females and young.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2016) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11186/18540211
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1006386
- • iucnredlist.org — 18540211
- • wikidata.org — Q172886
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Guanaco at SF Zoo.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Lama guanicoe
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Steven Traver · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.