Vicugna
Vicugna vicugna / Vicugna
- Habitat
- Grasslands in the high mountains between 3,200 and 4,800 m
- Continent
- South America
- Food
- Grasses and foliage, small shrubs
- Gestation/breeding period
- ~ 340 days
- Mode of life
- Small family groups, males also solitary or in small groups
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Artiodactyla
Key facts
~ 90 cm
size
~ 40 kg
weight
~ 30 years
age
How endangered are Vicugnas?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
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Least concern Least concern - Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
The incisors in the lower jaw grow back throughout the vicugna’s life, similar to rodents.
Vicugna on the zoo tour
