The Guanaco of Patagonia: A Study of Behavior and Ecology

Duration: 0:28:00

Creator: International Film Bureau | William L. Franklin

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Studies the wild guanaco of South America, a descendant of ancient camels and ancestor of today's domesticated llamas and alpacas that live in one of the world's most awesome environments. Captures the guanaco's unique social system, communication behaviors, and adaptation to the windblown prairie. Explains that the species has been used as the primary source of meat, clothing, and shelter for the Patagonian Indians; it was hunted to near extinction by European colonizers in the early 1900s; and it is currently a protected species.

Complete Record: , Studies the wild guanaco of South America, a descendant of ancient camels and ancestor of today's domesticated llamas and alpacas that live in one of the world's most awesome environments. Captures the guanaco's unique social system, communication behaviors, and adaptation to the windblown prairie. Explains that the species has been used as the primary source of meat, clothing, and shelter for the Patagonian Indians; it was hunted to near extinction by European colonizers in the early 1900s; and it is currently a protected species.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.