🦙Alpaca
La alpaca (del quechua allpaqa, paqu o a veces paqucha, a través del aimara allpaqa) (Vicugna pacos) es una especie doméstica de mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia Camelidae. Evolutivamente está emparentada con la vicuña, aunque en las poblaciones actuales hay una fuerte introgresión genética de la llama (Lama glama). Su domesticación se viene realizando desde hace miles de años. Podemos encontrar restos arqueológicos de la cultura mochica del Perú con representaciones de alpacas.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The IUCN Red List has not assessed Vicugna pacos yet.
- 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
Everything we know about the Alpaca
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass62 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Shoulder height0.93 m0.9–0.95 m · typical rangeat the withersDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 lifespan26 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation345 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Volume l62 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyCamelidae
- ›genusVicugna
- ›speciesVicugna pacos
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyCamelidae
- genusVicugna
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderTylopoda
- familyCamelidae
- genusVicugna
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