Head & Neck
This body part helps the llama hear.
What are the ears?
This body part is where the front leg attaches to the body.
What is the shoulder?
This body part is used to swish flies and is found at the rear of the llama.
What is the tail?
This body part is found at the very end of the foot and protects the toe.
What is the toenail?
This process removes fiber from a llama or alpaca.
What is shearing?
This body part is used for eating and drinking.
What is the muzzle?
This body part is found at the front of the animal below the neck.
What is the chest?
This body part is found above the rear leg and helps form the back end structure.
What is the hip?
This soft part of the foot touches the ground when the llama kneels.
What is the palmar pad?
Fiber can be spun into this.
What is yarn?
This body part helps the llama smell.
What are the nostrils?
This body part is found behind the front leg joint and shares its name with a human body part.
What is the elbow?
This body part is the upper portion of the rear leg between the hip and hock.
What is the thigh?
This body part is found between the foot and the fetlock.
What is the pastern?
This process twists fiber together to create yarn.
What is spinning?
This body part is found on top of the head between the ears.
What is the poll?
This body part is located at the top of the shoulders and is commonly used when discussing animal height and structure.
What are the withers?
Bonus +100:
Show with your hands where you would measure the withers on a llama or alpaca
This body part is found at the top rear portion of the animal between the back and tail.
What is the croup?
Bonus +100:
Using your hands, show where the croup is located.
this body part is located above the pastern and below the scent gland on the front leg.
What is the fetlock?
Bonus +100:
Show where the fetlock is located.
After fiber is sheared, this process helps straighten and prepare it before spinning.
What is carding?
This body part connects the head to the rest of the body.
What is the neck?
This body part sits below the scent gland and above the pastern on the front leg.
What is the fetlock?
This joint on the rear leg is often mistaken for a backward knee.
What is the hock?
Bonus +100:
Show where the hock is
These two body parts are often confused. One is found higher on the rear leg and one is located closer to the foot
What are the hock and fetlock?
Name the two main alpaca fiber types.
What are Huacaya and Suri?