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- noun Plural form of
guanaco .
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Examples
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For the next few weeks he will be volunteering, doing biological research on local wildlife such as guanacos, marks, pumas, raptors, sea lions and insects for the Fundacion Patagonia Natural, a nonprofit conservation and research organization.
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The animal act features trainer Jim Garner, assisted by his son of thirteen, two camels, two llamas, two guanacos, two English ponies, and two Arabian camels.
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In addition, many species of fauna are now in regression due to the tempting prices paid for the skins of chulengos (baby guanacos) and choique rhea feathers.
Patagonian steppe 2008
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The animal act features trainer Jim Garner, assisted by his son of thirteen, two camels, two llamas, two guanacos, two English ponies, and two Arabian camels.
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Historically guanacos have become restricted from most of the wide pampas to the southern Andes and Patagonia due to hunting, habitat destruction and climatic change.
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The footsteps of the puma were to be seen almost everywhere on the banks of the river; and the remains of several guanacos, with their necks dislocated and bones broken, showed how they had met their death.
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At first, considering the abundance of the guanacos, I was surprised at this; but it is explained by the stony nature of the plains, which would soon disable an unshod horse from taking part in the chase.
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It is asserted that the puma always kills its prey by springing on the shoulders, and then drawing back the head with one of its paws, until the vertebræ break: I have seen in Patagonia the skeletons of guanacos, with their necks thus dislocated.
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The guanacos have one singular habit, which is to me quite inexplicable; namely, that on successive days they drop their dung in the same defined heap.
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The guanacos readily take to the water: several times at Port
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