guanaco

guanaco (gwah-NAH-koh) - n., a wild long-haired South American camelid (Lama guanicoe) with a fine, soft wool; the wool of this animal; cloth made from this wool.



Thanks, Wikimedia!

And as mentioned yesterday, this is the ancestor of the domesticated llama. Name is from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.

And that wraps up this week of Andean animals, which was all but entirely the camelids -- not quite enough of them for a full week, as it turns out. Back next week with the usually mix of pretty good words.

---L.