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A white alpaca (Lama pacos) stands on rocky terrain with sparse vegetation, facing to the right. Bactrian camel An adult Arabian camel and its calf stand on rocky ground with orange desert dunes in the background in Oman. Two guanacos with tan and white fur stand on a grassy hill with mountains in the background in Patagonia, Chile. llama vicuña Four Bactrian camels with shaggy brown coats stand on dry grassland in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, with rolling hills in the background. World map showing the historical evolution and distribution of camels and llamas, with present-day camelid ranges shaded in orange across Africa, Asia, and South America. North America is marked as the camelid source region. Colored arrows trace migration routes: green for camel ancestors moving to Eurasia and Africa, blue for llama ancestors migrating to South America, and additional arrows indicating more recent introductions to Australia and other regions. Insets note that camelids first emer World map showing the geographic ranges of camelid species, with color-coded outlines for each: alpaca, llama, guanaco, and vicuna ranges are marked in South America; Arabian camel or dromedary in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia; domesticated Bactrian camel across Central Asia; and wild Bactrian camel in a small area of East Central Asia. Australia is shaded for introduced dromedaries.
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Invalidated site: The University of Texas at El Paso - Tylopoda. Dec 01, 2017
Add new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - The Tyrannosauridae. May 13, 2011
Add new Web site: The University of Texas at El Paso - Tylopoda. May 13, 2011
Add new Web site: University of Edinburgh - Natural History Collections - Tylopoda. May 13, 2011
Media added. Feb 18, 2011
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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