Llama Facts

- Mama llamas usually only have one baby at a time and llama twins are incredibly rare. Pregnancy lasts for about 350 days, nearly a full year. Crias (baby llamas) weigh 20 to 35 pounds at birth.
- Llamas are used as pack animals and they know their own limits. If you try to overload a llama with too much weight, the llama is likely to lie down or simply refuse to move.
- Llamas are very confident and brave animals and in North America they'vd been used as guard animals for livestock, like sheep or even alpacas, since the '80s.
- When one llama is angry with another llama, they will stick their tongues out to express their dislike.
- Llamas don't bite. They spit when they're agitated, but that's mostly at each other. Llamas also kick and neck wrestle each other when agitated.
- In the Andes Mountains of Peru, llama fleece has been shorn and used in textiles for about 6,000 years. Llama wool is light, warm, water-repellent, and free of lanolin.

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