Huanaca

Huanaca, or GUANACO (Lama huanaeos; see LLAMA), a species of the same genus with the llama, vicuña, and alpaca, of which some naturalists suppose it to be the wild original. It is found not only on the Andes, but throughout great part of Patagonia. It is of a reddish-brown colour, the ears and hind-legs gray. It generally lives in herds of ten to forty, and is very quick-sighted and wary; although such is the strength of its curiosity that hunters attract the herds within easy reach of their rifles by lying down on the ground and kicking their feet in the air. Like its congeners, the Huanaca is extremely sure-footed on rocky ground.