The World's Most Beautiful Places
A portrait of an Alpaca on a farm in northern Utah. The Alpaca is camelid mammal, native to South America, and closely related to the Llama. Alpaca are naturally found at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador. Alpaca fiber, called wool by some is commonly used in the making of blankets and clothing.
The Red-legged Seriema Bird (Cariama cristata) is native to South America, and is widely distributed across parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. The Seriema was described by the famous Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766, in the twelfth edition of Systema Naturae. A predatory bird, the Seriema is sometimes used as a guard animal to protect poultry from predators. Its diet is primarily that of insects, lizards, snakes, amphibians, and small mammals. It is also known to eat the young of other birds.