Camelid Information

Question 1

What camel originates from Africa and South Asia?

Answer 1

Domedary

Question 2

What camel originates from Central Asia?

Answer 2

Bactrian

Question 3

Where do Guanacos, Llamas, Vicunas, and Alpacas originate from?

Answer 3

South America

Question 4

What is the wild predecosor of a llama?

Answer 4

Guanaco

Question 5

What is the wild predecosor of an alpaca?

Answer 5

Vicuna

Question 6

What camelid group is used for iridng, carrying goods, agriculture, meat, fiber, and dung (fuel)?

Answer 6

camels

Question 7

What camelid group is used primarily as a pac animal, meat, fibe, and dun (fuel)?

Answer 7

lamoids

Question 8

The lamoid group includes what?

Answer 8

llamas

alpacas

Question 9

What is a condition where a male llama who has been improperly imprinted on humans becomes physically aggressive towards people upon reaching pubery?

Answer 9

“Beserk Male” Syndrome

Question 10

What is the name for a neonate camelid?

Answer 10

cria

Question 11

What is the term (s) for paturition in a camelid?

Answer 11

criation

unpacking

Question 12

What ia the term for a female camleid?

Answer 12

dam

Question 13

What is the the term for a proven male camelid used for breeding?

Answer 13

herdshire

stud

Question 14

What is the term for the sounds that llamas make when they are tired, stressed, hot, uncomfortable, curious or concerned?

Answer 14

humming

Question 15

What is a cross between alpaca and llama?

Answer 15

huzario

Question 16

What is the term for the act of a camelid laying down sternally or the actual position of sternal recumbency?

Answer 16

kush

Question 17

What is the term for a mature female read to breed for the first time, usually between 12-24 months old?

Answer 17

maiden

Question 18

Wha tis the term for a female camelid that is not pregnant?

Answer 18

open

Question 19

What is the term for the characteristis rapid grunting of a male camelid made by breeding males during copulation?

Answer 19

orgle

Question 20

What is the term for when a camelid male displays characteristic behavioral nad physical signs that the breeding season has begun?

Answer 20

rut

Question 21

What is the term for a father camelid?

Answer 21

stire

Question 22

What is another name for the dromedary camel?

Answer 22

arabian camel

Question 23

How many humps does the dromedary camel have?

Answer 23

one

Question 24

What is the haircoat length of a dromedary camel?

Answer 24

short ot medium

Question 25

How many humps does the bactrian camel have?

Answer 25

two

Question 26

What camel has a long, dense, shaggy coat?

Answer 26

Bactrian

Question 27

What breed of camel is present in large undomesticated groups in Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, and India?

Answer 27

bactrian

Question 28

Where did the llama originate?

Answer 28

south america

Question 29

Is the alpaca or llama the largest?

Answer 29

llama

Question 30

What are llamas directly descended from?

Answer 30

guanacos

Question 31

What species of llamoid is native to the arid, mountaneous regions of south maerica?

Answer 31

guanaco

Question 32

What is one of the largest wild mmamal species found in South America, though smaller than theri domesticated descendants?

Answer 32

guanaco

Question 33

What species of llamoid has a dark brown topline seen with shades of cream or white along the ventral surfaces, with grey shading on the face?

Answer 33

guanaco

Question 34

What species of llamoid originated in the western mountains of south america??

Answer 34

alpaca

Question 35

What species of llamoid is smaller than llamas and guanacos?

Answer 35

alpaca

Question 36

What species of llamoid is descended directly from the Vicuna?

Answer 36

alpaca

Question 37

What species of llamoid is bred exclusively for fiber and meat?

Answer 37

alpaca

Question 38

What species of llamoid is native to the central plains of the Andes in the South America?

Answer 38

vicuna

Question 39

What species of llamoid the smallesst?

Answer 39

vicuna

Question 40

What species of llamoid is present at about 350k and is still trheatened?

Answer 40

vicuna

Question 41

How often are wild vicunas rounded up and shorn for their wool?

Answer 41

every 3 years

Question 42

What species of llamoid has the finest animal fiber known to man?

Answer 42

vicuna

Question 43

How much does vicuna fiber sell for?

Answer 43

400-600 dollars a kilogram

Question 44

Do camelids ruminate?

Answer 44

yes

Question 45

Are camelids classified as ruminants?

Answer 45

yes

Question 46

How much can the termperature of a camelid flucturate without harm?

Answer 46

7 degrees

Question 47

What shape is the red blood cell in a camel?

Answer 47

oval

Question 48

For which species is the following dental formuls: 2(1/3, C1/1, P 3/1-2, M3/3)?

Answer 48

camels

Question 49

How many teeth do camels have?

Answer 49

32-34

Question 50

The foolowing dental formuyla applies to which collection of species? 2(I1/3, C1/1 P2/1 M3/3)

Answer 50

lamoid

Question 51

How many teeth do lamoids have?

Answer 51

30

Question 52

Do all camelids posses canines?

Answer 52

yes

Question 53

When canines in male camelids become extremely sharp thery are called what?

Answer 53

fighting teeth

Question 54

Do camelids posses a full complement of upper incisors?

Answer 54

no

Question 55

Do camelids have a dental pad?

Answer 55

yes

Question 56

Do camelids have a gall bladder/

Answer 56

no

Question 57

What two metacarpals/metatarsals are dused in the camelids?

Answer 57

third and fourth

Question 58

Do camels have vestigial digits?

Answer 58

no

Question 59

Do camelids have hooves?

Answer 59

no

Question 60

Do camelids have tonails?

Answer 60

yes

Question 61

What kind of ovulator is the cameliud?

Answer 61

induced

Question 62

What is the gestation of a lamoid?

Answer 62

11-12 mo

Question 63

What is the gestation of a camel?

Answer 63

13-14 mo

Question 64

How long is estrus in a camelid?

Answer 64

4-5 days

Question 65

What position do camelids deliver in?

Answer 65

standing | kush

Question 66

How are most camelids bred?

Answer 66

liver cover

Question 67

In what position do camelids mate?

Answer 67

kush

Question 68

What is the most common cause of mortality in camelid neonates?

Answer 68

failure of passive transfer of antiboides

Question 69

Camelids have nutritional needs similar to what?

Answer 69

sheep and goats

Question 70

When do camelids do best?

Answer 70

grazing on pasture

Question 71

Are camelids capable of breaking through ice?

Answer 71

no

Question 72

Wha tis the normal temp range for a camelid?

Answer 72

99-101.5

Question 73

What is teh pulse rate for a camelid?

Answer 73

60-90bpm

Question 74

Wha is the resp rate for a camelid?

Answer 74

10-30 rpm