Q 01/05

The Spanish phrase 'cómo se llama' has nothing to do with llamas; what does it ask for?

A) Someone's name

B) Someone's age

C) The time

D) The price

Answer · why

A) Someone's name

Someone's name. The 'llama' here is part of the verb llamarse, to be called, so the phrase means 'what is he called?', and most Spanish speakers say i...

Q 02/05

What is a baby llama called?

A) A foal

B) A cria

C) A calf

D) A kid

Answer · why

B) A cria

A cria. The word comes from Spanish cría, a suckling young animal, and it fits: for its first few days a newborn llama nurses in short bouts every hou...

Q 03/05

Llamas belong to which family of animals?

A) Sheep

B) Horses

C) Camels

D) Deer

Answer · why

C) Camels

Camels. Llamas are humpless members of the camel family, close enough kin that in 1998 scientists in Dubai bred a camel-llama hybrid, the cama.

Q 04/05

Which wild animal is the ancestor of the domestic llama?

A) The chamois

B) The vicuña

C) The mouflon

D) The guanaco

Answer · why

D) The guanaco

The guanaco. Andean herders began taming it thousands of years ago for use as a pack animal, and it still runs wild from the high Andes to Patagonia.

Q 05/05

Llamas are willing pack animals up to a point; what does one typically do when it is overloaded?

A) It refuses to move

B) It bolts for home

C) It bucks off the load

D) It walks in circles

Answer · why

A) It refuses to move

It refuses to move. An overloaded llama sinks to the ground and may hiss, spit or kick until its pack is lightened; fairly loaded, it will cover 25 ki...