Lama guanacoe
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English: Guanaco
German: Quanako
French: Quanaco
Spanish: Llama
Distribution areas
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The guanaco can be found in South
America, mostly in mountain areas of the
west and southern territories.
Description of the fur
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The skins of the guanaco is about 160 to Transverse section
200 cm long. The upper part of the back is of a guard hair, 40x
red-brown in colour. The belly part is
white and the head dark-grey or black in colour. The thickness of the coat is
from 50 to 90 mm and even more in some body areas. The hair shafts are
moderately curled.
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Lama guanacoe
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English: Guanaco
German: Quanako
French: Quanaco
Spanish: Llama
Structure of the hair
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The microscopic structure of the skin
surface appears moderately furrowed; the
hair follicles are narrow and edges are
straight. Only guard hairs grow from wide
follicles with straight edges. The
follicles contain clusters of hair shafts,
but guard hairs occur singly. The surface structure
of the skin, 200x
The fine fur fibres have a diameter of
10 to 20 µm. The cross-sectional outline is circular at the bottom, and
elliptical in the upper parts, of the shaft. The cuticular scales are
cornet-like with a smooth surface and straight margins. These fibres are
non-medullated.
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Lama guanacoe
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English: Guanaco
German: Quanako
French: Quanaco
Spanish: Llama
The intermediate fibres are elliptical
or dumb-bell-shaped in cross-section. They
have a diameter of between 50 and 70 µm.
The cuticular scales are even, tile-like
with an irregularly grooved surface and
straight scale margins. The medulla is
narrow, only in the upper parts is it wide.
The medulla is unbroken, central
symmetrical shaped, or in some cases The cuticular structure
central non-symmetrical shaped in the of the fine fibres, 4000x
cross-sectional outline. The medullary
column is of the lattice-sponge-like type with a sheet-like or foam-like
structure of the infilling substance.
The guard hairs have a diameter of 60 to 260 µm and their cross-section is
usually elliptical or dumb-bell-shaped in cross-section, but sometimes is
also heart-shaped. The cuticular scales are even, tile-like or mosaic in the
shape, with a smooth scale surface and straight edges.
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Lama guanacoe
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English: Guanaco
German: Quanako
French: Quanaco
Spanish: Llama
The medulla is the predominating struc-
ture in the hair shafts. It is of the
symmetrical non-uniform lattice type with
sheet-like detailed structure of the
infilling substance.
Longitudinal section
of a guard hair, 200x
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Lama guanacoe
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English: Guanaco
German: Quanako
French: Quanaco
Spanish: Llama
Transverse section
of a guard hair, 150x
Numerical code for guanaco skin structure
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Surface of the skin: 3-4.2-3.1
Fine fur fibres: 1.2-5-1-1-4-0-0-0-0-10.21-8.35
Intermediate fibres: 2.8-2-3-1-3.2-1-1.2-11-1.5-50.71-25.55
Guard hairs: 2.8-1.2-1-1-1-1-1-9-1-60.261-40.91
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