Why do Lamas/Alpackers spit?
The four llamas and two camels are camelids: members of the biological family Camelidae, the only family in the suborder Tylopoda. The vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) is one of two wild South American camelids, along with the guanaco, which lives in the high Andes. It is a relative of the llama and the alpaca. Do camels really spit? They aren’t actually spitting—it’s more like throwing up! They bring up the contents of their stomachs, along with saliva, and project it out. This is meant to surprise, distract, or bother whatever the camel feels is threatening it. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t… Llamas have been plagued with the unfair reputation of spitting. It is true that they spit, but not under the conditions that most people imagine. The vast majority of llamas spit only at other llamas and not at people. There are some llamas, especially at petting zoos, which have been deliberately imprinted on pe
