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At the Foot of a Melting Glacier in Peru, Llamas Helped Revitalize the Land

"Invasion Biology"

At the Foot of a Melting Glacier in Peru, Llamas Helped Revitalize the Land

Llamas are camelids, the family of animals that also includes Bactrian and Dromedary camels, vicunas, alpacas and guanacos. These animals evolved in North America. Llamas and their ancestors were present in North America for 40 million years. Together with 80 percent of existing North American genera, llamas and their cousins

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Circle Ranch Game Cameras: March 15, 2014

Here are links to some great pictures of many species sharing water and habitat at the Circle Ranch. Several, like aoudad and bighorn, are thought to be hostile to each other, and incompatible: That belief is wrong, as these photos show. Diablo Peak: Sheep Tank: Tres Papalotes: Bezos Fenceline: Oncie

Circle Ranch Indian Cave

Circle Ranch Indian Cave

At Circle Ranch we have what may be the most important unexplored cave dwelling in far-West Texas: A large cave which occurs in one of our limestone escarpments. It is about 200-feet above the desert floor and 100 feet below the escarpment top. The cave measures roughly 80’ by 80’