Talk:Vicuña

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the Genetic_bottleneck part maynot be completely true, it's implied from the current situations though. If anyone wishes to contest it, they can delete it if and only if there is absolutely no proof or if there is definite proof. Vincent Gray 05:33, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

okay, what's with this repeated vandalism? 6.3 million chinese camelids? If one looks at the history, this has been repeated often.

It seems more likely that a bottleneck in the population numbers, as happened to the cheetah for whatever reason, causes inbreeding and a lack of genetic diversity. The article implies that inbreeding itself causes a bottleneck which seems less plausible.Jelle Boersma.

Maybe the young becoming independent means something different than I think (like just walking independently) but given the statement that they are nursed for 10 days I would think that they become independent after 12-18 days, not 12-18 hours. -Traveling in Northern Chile and Bolivia

[edit] Species?

Should any difference be noted between vicugna vicugna, lama vicugna, and camelus vicugna? I'm not sure of the differences, does anyone know? DBishop¹⁹⁸⁴ 15:06, 3 August 2007 (UTC)