Llama

Kingdom: Animalia

• Multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells.

• Rely on other organisms for nourishment.

• Ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity.

• Have their own means of locomotion.

Phylum: Chordata

• Bilatery symmetrical bodies (the right and left side of a body are a mirror image of each other).

• At some point of the life cycle they have a pair of gill slits or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment.

• Have a notochord at some phase of their life cycle.

• Members often have a head, tail and a digestive system with openings at both ends of their body.

Class: Mammalia

• Concieve their young with the reproductive tract of the mother.

• Nourish young with milk produced by the mother's mammary gland.

• Are heterodonts ( that means that they have a variety of specialized teeth).

• Are endothermic ( that means they are warm blooded ).

• They have hair and sweat glands.

• They have 4 chambered hearts.

• They have a complex nervous system.

• They have large brains.

Order: Artiodactyla

• These animals can run fast and share similar cranial and dental characteristics with each other.

• They often have long skulls and have horns or antlers. They have a lot of cheek teeth and have various amounts of teeth.

Family: Camelidae

• They all have elongated skulls.

• Their toes are also splayed.

• They have long, gracile necks; a small head, and long slender legs.

• Their bodies vary in size.

Genius: Llama

• They have long dense fine wool on their body.

• The hair on their head, neck, and limbs is shorter than what is on the rest of their body.

• Llamas vary in size.

Species: Llama Glama

• Their toes are splayed and they have long legs.

• They also have long necks and can weigh between 130- 155 kilograms.

• They eat grass and leaves.

• They are hunted by predators in grasslands.

References: My information and picture came from Animal Diversity web. December 15, 2000. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/.

Poem:

Llamas are fast

Llamas are quick

Their fur coat is very slick.

Llamas look funny

But are quite smart

For they are in art.

Don't get to near

I'll tell you this

Or they will spit in your ear and give you a kiss.