The Llama Thread

[JoeP]

Not sure if this should be in the Sciences forum or in Sexuality (for bcg's benefit) or Philosophy (since bcg, again, appears to view llamas as deities).

Interesting facts about llamas (pbut):

The llama and alpaca are only known in the domestic state.

Males do not become sexually mature until approximately 3 years.

Llamas mate with the female in a kush (lying down) position, which is fairly unusual in a large animal. They mate for an extended period of time (20–45 minutes), also unusual in a large animal.

Dams (female llamas) do not lick off their babies, as they have an attached tongue which does not reach outside of the mouth more than half an inch.

Llamas should be tested for pregnancy after breeding at 2–3 weeks, 6 weeks, and at least 12 weeks.

"Spit testing". Bring the potentially pregnant dam to an intact male. If the stud attempts to breed her and she lies down for him within a fairly short period of time, she is not pregnant. If she remains on her feet, spits, attacks him, or otherwise prevents his being able to mate, it is assumed that she is probably pregnant. This test gets its name due to the dam spitting at the male if she is pregnant.

However, some hormonal conditions in females can make them reject a male when they are in fact not pregnant, and, more rarely, accept a male when they are pregnant.



When a llama puts their ears back it means they are agitated. They may start to make a clucking noise as if they are bringing up stomach acid. Take caution they do not spit on you. When a llama spits it can be so hard it may bruise the skin.

http://www.readersdoglist.com/signs44.jpg

After spitting, the llama hangs their mouth open ( and can drop their lower lip even more) to 'air out' their mouth from the taste/smell of the spit.

Don't forget to tune in to LNN : Llama News Network» All Llamas are good llamas says Yo Llama. (http://www.llamanews.com/).

And vote early and often! http://www.llamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/llamacratic-home.thumbnail.jpg http://www.llamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/political_llama3.thumbnail.jpg

[Legs]

Take the Llama Quiz (http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz28317340ea0.html)

[Ensign Steve]

I got a 4 out of 10. :sadcheer: I blame one of my wrong answers on some misinformation in the OP. :glare:

[biochemgirl]

I am in :llama: heaven right now. :hyper:

[biochemgirl]

Oh and fun bcg fact. I hum to the llamas all the time and they hum back. :D

[vremya]

I heard that llamas make good guard animals. So long as you have only one - if you have two llamas guarding your sheep, they're going to be more interested in each other than anything else.

[fragment]

5/10. Cria, humming and bananas were complete guesses, though.

[biochemgirl]

I heard that llamas make good guard animals. So long as you have only one - if you have two llamas guarding your sheep, they're going to be more interested in each other than anything else.

:yup: I honestly think it's more due to their curiosity than anything. They are incredibly curious animals.

[Shelli]

:llamaglomp:

[biochemgirl]

There is a lot of llama love in this thread. :llamaglomp:

[JoeP]

Oh and fun bcg fact. I hum to the llamas all the time and they hum back. :D

So, do you have actual llamas in your country estate, and if so how many?

[biochemgirl]

Oh and fun bcg fact. I hum to the llamas all the time and they hum back. :D

So, do you have actual llamas in your country estate, and if so how many?

We don't but my mom and dad actually raise them along with alpacas and other strange sorts of creatures. I'm not quite sure how many they have off the top of my head but I would say maybe 20ish? I get to visit them every time I go home for the weekend. :D

[JoeP]

Oh and fun bcg fact. I hum to the llamas all the time and they hum back. :D

So, do you have actual llamas in your country estate, and if so how many?

We don't but my mom and dad actually raise them along with alpacas and other strange sorts of creatures. I'm not quite sure how many they have off the top of my head but I would say maybe 20ish? I get to visit them every time I go home for the weekend. :D

COOL.

[vremya]

Alpacas have such funny faces. They always look like they're about to say something. I'm making a shawl out of alpaca yarn right now. It's so soft!

[Ensign Steve]

Alpacas have such funny faces. They always look like they're about to say something.

WTF! Really?

[jess]

We watched some llamas go through obstacle courses yesterday at the fair...

[Deadlokd]

We watched some llamas go through obstacle courses yesterday at the fair...

Did the Marines accept them?

5/10. 18-24 months huh. JoeP, you got some 'splainin' to do!

(How do we not have Lucille Ball smilies?)

[JoeP]

It's not my misinformation, it's that friggin' Wikipedia bullshit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama). And my bullshit detector was triggered by that article: it's written in a slightly weird way, at least from 'Classification' on. As if it had been quietly copied from something assiduously written in the far-off 19th century, replete with many flowery but singularly unnecessary adjectives.

[biochemgirl]

We watched some llamas go through obstacle courses yesterday at the fair...

Yup, we have that at Iowa State Fair. I have actually watched it once or twice. I see they have added the "llama limbo contest".

Oh and I am thinking the correct answer is around two years, but like any other animals it can vary.

[BrotherMan]

http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/dali-lama.jpg

From here (http://totallylookslike.com/).

[Clutch Munny]

Been meaning to post this for weeks now. It's from my trip to Argentina this summer, a pic of a wall hanging.

I call it: Stretch Llamo:

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh293/Clutch_M/IMG_2477.jpg

[biochemgirl]

:aww:

[Shelli]

http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/1/alpak.jpg

[JoeP]

alpaca time

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2422760404_a272a02ff9_o.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

Where's his legs go!? :stunned:

edit: ears, too

[Shelli]

:yeahthat: & :yeahthat:

[biochemgirl]

I so need all the llamas (or alpacas) I can get today.

:llamaglomp:

[Shelli]

:shakellama:

[Watser?]

Here's a full spectrum of llamas for ya:

YouTube - THE NEW LLAMA SONG !!!!!

[livius drusus]

Well then let's pile them on.
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[biochemgirl]

Yet again I now have the llama song in my head.

Llama llama duck! :giggle:

[Shelli]

:stwitch:

http://cdn.davesdaily.com/pictures/655-funny-lama.jpg

[Crumb]

:egad:

[biochemgirl]

He appears to be saying "please put me down and out of my misery now!"

[JoeP]

:glare:

[Shelli]

:glareglomp:

[Shelli]

Better? :=)

http://shogun.shafted.com.au/temp/llama.jpg

[Shelli]

awww..... fuzzy llama :^^

http://www.1066online.com/HASTINGS-MAIN/Places-to-Visit/visit-sussex/images/Ashdown-Llama-Park.jpg

[Shelli]

:lol: :rainbow:

http://www.thehatchreport.com/images/llama.jpg

[biochemgirl]

:glare:

:glareglomp:


Llama llama DUCK!

[Shelli]

:rughide:

http://salamandercandy.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/llama-obey.jpg

[Shelli]

Baby llama! :^^

http://itrocks.biteus.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/baby_llama.jpg

[Shelli]

This one here is just begging for the right script...

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images14/Llama1UpsetCIMG7621.JPG

[biochemgirl]

That one is saying "take me home biochemgirl!" :aww:

[Shelli]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4214&d=1222553631

[JoeP]

:stwitch:

http://cdn.davesdaily.com/pictures/655-funny-lama.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Dwaine_dibley.png

[JoeP]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture.php?albumid=332&pictureid=2608

[biochemgirl]

Awesome.

[Watser?]

The question remains: what would you need a llama for?

To carry your laptop?

[biochemgirl]

:faint:

I can't believe you would ask that question. All a llama needs to do is be a llama. That's all you need. :llamaglomp:

[Tanda]

You needs one of these:

http://ogresview.mu.nu/images/llama.JPG

[Tanda]

And this one want a date.

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee163/johnmig1/ART/dali_llama.jpg?t=1238878499

[Tanda]

I'm laughing out loud!! Why can't I thank myself for that last one??? That is so fricken hilarious! :dielaugh:

[SharonDee]

Waiter! I'll have what she's having ... :chug:

[biochemgirl]

I can't make it past the first picture without being incredibly disturbed. :shudder:

[Tanda]

http://www.guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/llama.jpg

It's the Leon Phelps of Llamas.

[California Tanker]

:stwitch:

http://cdn.davesdaily.com/pictures/655-funny-lama.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Dwaine_dibley.png

Wait. That's a cat, not a llama.

NTM

[biochemgirl]

Ugly llamas need love too.

[JoeP]

I'm laughing out loud!! Why can't I thank myself for that last one???

Don't tell anyone I told you, but you should get a sock puppet account to do that
:psst:

[Doctor X]

Duane . . . Dibley?

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

Llamas

--J.D.

[Ymir's blood]

YouTube - Don't Give Mikey No Matches!

[Chris Porter]

That is inexplicable.

[Ensign Steve]

Made perfect sense to me.

[Sock Puppet]

I'm laughing out loud!! Why can't I thank myself for that last one???

Don't tell anyone I told you, but you should get a sock puppet account to do that
:psst:No need to PM me now, Tanda; I took care of it. We can work out a payment plan later.

[Lauri D]

I'm going to have to try to run up the hill and get pics of the local llamas - I already tried using my binoculars to see exactly what kind they are, but they keep hiding behind this one building. They can't be more than 1/4 mile from here, but there are fences... don't want to get nicked for trespassing or anything.

Llamas are awesome, even the "ugly" ones. There's one at the local petting zoo that I visit occasionally with a crazy white fringe and the bluest eyes you've ever seen. Just looking at him and feeding him carrots makes me feel like I'm on acid (although I really wouldn't know, just what it *seems* like it might be like).

[JoeP]

Lauri!

[Watser?]

There was an Easter market in town and they had a llama petting zoo set up :llamaglomp:

[biochemgirl]

:aww:

[Malloch]

OK I was searching various abandonware sites seeking nostalgia, when I found this:
The Llama Game (http://www.xtcabandonware.com/temp_info.php?file=games_l_p/llamatron.zip&id=564)

[Farren]

Jeff Minter FOREVER.

Old, oldschool, bebbe.

ETA Love that Engrish

[Ensign Steve]

ALPACAS!
:loud:

http://i.imgur.com/P4Sla.jpg

[Janet]

So it's alpacas at the end of the rainbow instead of a pot of gold? Weird.

[biochemgirl]

OMG! Llamas (and alpacas)! How I've missed you! :llamaglomp:

[livius drusus]

I'm sure the feeling is mutual. :glomp:

[JoeP]

bcg! wb!

[Crumb]

http://www.bluebison.net/sketchbook/2006/0606/llama1.jpg

[Ensign Steve]

Me llama Llama.
http://i.imgur.com/EGEq2.jpg

[Watser?]

I get this sudden urge to yodel :opera:

[JoeP]

Look at that eye-shadow!

[Ensign Steve]

http://i.imgur.com/DpGiN.jpg

Before and after nutri-system? :chin:

[ceptimus]

Interesting how the brown patch in the fur on its neck shows up as a dark patch on the skin underneath.

[ceptimus]

BBC News - Inca success in Peruvian Andes 'thanks to llama dung' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13439093)

[Crumb]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/funny-pictures-all-the-llamas.png