guanaco
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Origin of guanaco
1595–1605; < Spanish < Quechua wanaku
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The Tehuelche were innovators, too: Outsiders marveled at their bolas, weighted rope snares they swung and launched from horseback to hunt llamalike guanaco and flightless rhea birds.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
Seven Worlds, One Planet A new episode of this nature series travels to South America, where pumas in the Andes stalk a llama-like creature called the guanaco and rarely seen bears forage for mini avocados.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2020
A guanaco is a bit like a llama.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2012
An armored truck spraying water from mounted cannons — called a guanaco, for the llamalike Andean animal that spits — rolled toward the .
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
However, though the guanaco does not have a dying place, it has a lot of characteristics sure to interest those who are lovers of natural history.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.
The debate intensified in September 2022 after the government approved a plan by the province of La Pampa to import 45 guanacos to its Luro reserve, which already hosts a few dozen translocated guanacos.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2023
But centuries before it became an imperial city, it was a relatively modest agricultural community where the predecessors of the Inca farmed potatoes and maize and raised llamas and guanacos.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Perfectly conical volcanoes loom over salt flats and desolate plains where guanacos, elegantly proportioned cousins of llamas, and viscachas, which resemble long-tailed rabbits, drift through prickly wisps of ground-hugging vegetation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
He pointed out wild llama-like guanacos grazing on the steppe, a gray fox running across the road, and caracara falcons perched on the fence posts.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
Most of these were the feeding-grounds for vast herds of guanacos and of wild horses.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
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