How To Use Vicuna In A Sentence
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Vicuña is a Peruvian name for this tylopod.
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And for those unfamiliar with the Peruvian national emblem, it depicts a vicuna, a horn of plenty and a cinchona tree.
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It is a "region where barley will not ripen except under very favorable circumstances and where maize in its most diminutive size has its most precarious development; where the potato, shrunk to its smallest proportions, is bitter; where the only grain is the quinoa, and where the only indigenous animals fit for food are the biscacha, the llama and the vicuna.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races
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The Andean camelids are found in these and other ecoregions, including the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), llama (Lama glama), guanaco (Lama guanacoe), and alpaca (Lama pacos).
Central Andean wet puna
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Here and elsewhere the animal raised varies widely-the llama and vicuna in Peru, which thrive best at 10,000 to 13,000 feet elevation, and multiply rapidly on the _ichu_ or coarse grass which clothes the slopes of the higher Andes up to snow line; sheep, goats, yaks and herds of dzo, a useful hybrid between yak and cow, in the highland districts of Sze Chuan.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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Several leading environmentalists said the flights would have caused irreparable damage to the ruins and rare wildlife, such as spectacled bears and vicunas, would have been scared away.
Archive 2006-09-01
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The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) – which along with the domesticated llama (Lama glama), the alpaca (Lama pacos), and the wild guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is one of four distinctive camel species found in the Tropical Andes – represents an important conservation success story for this hotspot.
Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes
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The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) – which along with the domesticated llama (Lama glama), the alpaca (Lama pacos), and the wild guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is one of four distinctive camel species found in the Tropical Andes – represents an important conservation success story for this hotspot.
Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes
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The vicuña is a relative of the llama and alpaca, another camelid, but with even softer and finer wool.
Colca canyon trip, day one
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Also new to me were Vicuna Vicugna vicugna, a small Andean camelid with rodent-like incisors.
Archive 2006-05-01
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In a sustainable-use program, wild vicunas are herded, captured, shorn of their fleece, and released unharmed.
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The other group migrated into South America, where it survives today as wild guanacos and vicunas and domesticated llamas and alpacas.
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They are somewhat timid (although not so shy as the ultimate fiber-producing camelid, the vicuña, a wild, endangered inhabitant of the Andean mountains that can only be shorn every three years for its exquisite fur), the alpaca has been domesticated for a very, very long time, and appears in artwork of the Moche people (CE 100 to 800).
Archive 2008-08-01
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If the alpaca is indeed a descendant of the vicuna, geneticists might be able to identify pure-bred alpacas and guide new breeding programs to improve the quality of alpaca fleece.
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Vicuna wool is prized even more highly than alpaca wool but the species is protected and its wool rarely found in garments.
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Llamas come from a family of four-footed animals called camelids, which also include alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos.
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In Peru, the National Council of South American Camelids has developed techniques for capturing and harvesting wool from wild vicunas, and has taught and supervised campesinos in vicuna management.
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Llamas come from a family of four-footed animals called camelids, which also include alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos.
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Morning dress consisted of a morning coat, which was almost always single-breasted, of serge, worsted, cheviot or vicuna, and black or iron-gray; a waistcoat, either single - or double-breasted, which matched the coat or was of a lighter color; striped spongebag trousers (trousers of wool serge, baggy at knee); a cravat; and silk hat (though a bowler/Homburg could be worn).
Dressing the Edwardian Man | Edwardian Promenade
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Her topcoat is vicuna, it doesn't come any more expensive in cloth, right, Doctor?
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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Llamas, as well as alpacas, vicunas, and guanacos are all tylopods, which are in the same family as camels.
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For many years, historians and scientists assumed that the Incas had created both the llamas and alpacas by domesticating the guanaco, which is larger and more widely distributed than the vicuna.