This article reconstructs the final diet of sacrificed domestic camelids from Huanchaquito-Las Llamas to understand whether feeding was part ritual practice. The site is situated on northern coast Peru and dated fifteenth century AD (Late Intermediate period; LIP). It used by Chimús kill bury a large number camelids, mostly juveniles. We reconstructed meal 11 individuals analyzing starch grains...

The characteristics of male and female reproductive tracts and reproductive physiology in camelids are described. An account is given on methods of collection, characteristics and storage of semen, and fertility after artificial insemination (AI) with fresh, liquid-stored and frozen-thawed lamoid and camel semen.

The importation of alpacas and llamas from South America over the last 15 years has resulted in the concurrent introduction of the biting louse, Bovicola breviceps, into Australia.1,2 Alpacas are produced for their luxury fibre and infestation of lice may result in fleece price penalties. B breviceps is specific for camelids, which includes alpacas, llamas, vicunas, guanacos, dromedary and Bact...

In most areas of the world, camelids are considered exotic animals, living only in zoological gardens. Additionally, considering original lands where they were previously bred with specific economic and social aims, today it is possible to detect a reduction their total numbers. Typically as working animals for goods transportation desert regions, source meat milk, recent years, camels have bee...

We report the complete genome sequence of "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemolamae," an endemic red-cell pathogen of camelids. The single, circular chromosome has 756,845 bp, a 39.3% G+C content, and 925 coding sequences (CDSs). A great proportion (49.1%) of these CDSs are organized into paralogous gene families, which can now be further explored with regard to antigenic variation.