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The Vicuña

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Carl B. Koford
Carl B. Koford
Affiliation:
National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland
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The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) family Camelidae, inhabits the high pastoral zone, or puna, of the central Andes for a distance of 1,300 miles, from latitude 10° S to 29° S. The puna consists of high, rolling, semi-arid grasslands, barren pampas, and volcanic peaks, above the limit of cultivated crops. Vicuñas occur from the upper limit of vegetation, at about 16,000 feet, down to 12,000 feet, but they are common only at sites above 14,000 feet.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1961 , pp. 43 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1961

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Footnote

This report is based largely on the following publication: Koford, Carl, B., 1957. The Vicuña and the Puna. Ecological Monographs, 27: 153–219. The Ecological Society of America. It was also submitted to the I.U.C.N. conference at Warsaw in 1960 and will appear in their proceedings.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

For further information about the vicuña and the guanaco, readers are referred to Oryx II 273–279 and 347–352.