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A brown Llama (Lama glama) geograph.org.uk 1631821🦙

Photo: Evelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesArtiodactylaCamelidae
Mammals

🦙Llama

Lama glama (Linnaeus, 1758)

The llama is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Lama glama yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
140 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
1.21 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Llama

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

Body mass
140 kg
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data quality: high

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

Shoulder height
1.21 mnot stated
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"Llamas are fairly large mammals standing about 1.21 m at the shoulder and about 1.2 m in length from head to tail."

Source: Portman 2004, Animal Diversity Web account: Lama glama, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Lama_glama/ · see citation

Maximum lifespan
29 years
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data quality: high

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

Gestation
330 days
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data quality: high

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

Litter size
1
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data quality: high

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

Volume l
140 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 Llama yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderArtiodactyla
  5. ›familyCamelidae
  6. ›genusLama
  7. ›speciesLama glama
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  3. familyCamelidae
  4. genusLama
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
  12. suborderTylopoda
  13. familyCamelidae
  14. genusLama
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More about the Llama

Closest relative on this site
🦙 Guanaco — last shared an ancestor ≈ 0.8 million years ago.
In other languages
lama andyjska (pl), 大羊駝 (zh), llama (es), láma (hu), Λάμα (el), lama (nl) … and 28 more languages
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A brown Llama (Lama glama) geograph.org.uk 16318210 Lama glama Lama (2)0 Lama glama Lama (3)
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