🦙Vicuña
The vicuña or vicuna is a wild South American camelid which lives in high alpine areas of the Andes. It is a relative of the llama, the domesticated descendant of the guanaco, the only other still wild South American camelid.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 50 kg
- Body length
- 1.74 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 61 years
Everything we know about the Vicuña
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass50 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 50 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.74 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass198 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan61 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 32 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length10 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation345 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 340 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.12 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density3.1 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l50 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 Vicuña yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyCamelidae
- ›genusVicugna
- ›speciesVicugna vicugna
- 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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