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SpeciesArtiodactylaCamelidae
Mammals

🦙Alpaca

Vicugna pacos (Linnaeus, 1758)

Das Alpaka (Vicugna pacos), auch Pako, ist eine aus den südamerikanischen Anden stammende, domestizierte Kamelart, die vorwiegend wegen ihrer Wolle gezüchtet wird. Der Bestand an Alpakas in Peru liegt bei etwa 3,5 Millionen Tieren, was ca. 80 Prozent des weltweiten Bestandes ausmacht.

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Vicugna pacos yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
62 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
0.93 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Everything we know about the Alpaca

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
62 kg
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Shoulder height
0.93 m0.9–0.95 m · typical rangeat the withers
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Page: "Measured at the withers: 90-95 cm when fully grown". Range only; value is the midpoint. Husbandry-standard figure for the domestic breed population, stated as such. ADW has no alpaca account.

Source: NSW Department of Education, Animals in Schools: 'Alpacas - introduction' (government husbandry guidance), https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/animals-in-schools/animals-in-schools-species/alpacas/alpacas-introduction · see citation

Maximum lifespan
26 years
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
345 days
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
1
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
62 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Alpaca yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🦙 Guanaco — last shared an ancestor ≈ 2.0 million years ago.
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alpakka (nb), 羊驼 (zh), alpaka (pl), alpaca (es), alpaka (hu), ألبكة (ar) … and 28 more languages
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