How to Use guanaco in a Sentence

guanaco

noun
  • Watch the towers play hide and seek as clouds shift with the wind and keep an eye out for guanacos and rheas who come close to the lodge.
    — Sarah Marshall, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Once hunted for their wool, guanacos are now protected by law.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2023
  • The pits also held bone fragments of Andean deer and camelids, such as vicuña or guanaco.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The guanaco, three times the cat’s size, bucks and kicks wildly, its fur ripping away in gauzy chunks under the cat’s claws.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The guanaco, three times heavier than the female puma, managed to escape.
    — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The guanaco, for example, relies on sips of water that is trapped by mosses clinging to cacti, which grow in soil fertilized by grit crust.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Other art found in the cave shows hunter gatherer communities in pursuit of prey, most commonly guanaco, a type of llama found in the area.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Other wildlife species recovered as well, including foxes and guanacos.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2025
  • There, near the border with Chile, subantarctic forests preserve habitats for the guemal, puma, rhea, condor, and guanaco.
    — National Geographic, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Llama-like guanacos, dwarf armadillos, and giant flightless birds, called choiques, were all frequent visitors.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Abundant wildlife includes many varieties of birds, along with guanaco, the endangered huemul deer, puma (cougars) and the massive Andean condors.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • In fact, the conservation work has been so successful that thousands of guanacos have returned to the valley and with the guanacos come the pumas, the region’s apex predator.
    — Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The puma grips the fallen guanaco’s neck with her heavy teeth, and begins to drag its massive, flaccid corpse up and over the high plains of the southern Andes, toward the spot where her hungry cubs are waiting.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Gutiérrez Alvarado and the other rangers recently counted 83 guanacos living in the park.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • On the walls are more than 2,000 high fives of ochre, red, purple, and white, prints large and small, likely stenciled by blowing mineral paint through a hollow bird- or guanaco-bone straw.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • On the western side of the park is Grey Glacier; wildlife lovers should pinpoint excursions generally to the east, where pumas are more predominant, as are large herds of guanacos.
    — Jordan Harvey, Travel + Leisure, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Even the animals feel like something out of a fairytale—the camel-lama-deer hybrid called the guanaco, the bunny-squirrel-cat mix called the vizcacha, and the pumas, who, as the hotel will explain, are always watching.
    — Teddy Minford, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
  • These majestic creatures primarily feed on guanacos.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In Chile’s famous Torres Del Paine National Park, a mother puma with her two cubs in tow attacks a guanaco.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Populating the ridge and surrounding slopes are herds of gazellelike creatures called guanacos; viscachas, marmotlike rodents with rabbity ears; burros; and hawks.
    — Dennis Overbye Marcos Zegers, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This picture shows huge lenticular clouds behind the silhouette of a guanaco, a llama-like animal native to South America.
    — National Geographic, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Imagine herds of guanacos, native llama-like creatures, grazing below dramatic peaks; flocks of flamingos swimming across lagoons; and not another traveler in sight.
    — Jeaninne Sanz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In South America, guanacos – relatives of wild camels– range from sea level to the snow line in the Andes and attempt to interbreed with domestic llamas.
    — Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
  • On the trek, guests will also stop in at a small alpaca farm and weaving center to learn the differences between llamas, alpacas, guanacos, and vicuñas, and get to watch women use traditional methods to dye dyeing wool and weave the wool.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Ancient people also painted human silhouettes and faces, as well as animal silhouettes, featuring large flightless birds called rheas and guanacos, close relatives of llamas.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Stay at the hotel or book a table at its restaurant, the Singular Patagonia, for dishes featuring local guanaco (a relative of the llama), scallops, and rhubarb.
    — AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Lagoons that are home to rare flamingos; vegetation that feeds goats, sheep, and guanacos; and a way of life followed by Indigenous Atacameño communities for thousands of years may all be in danger.
    — Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
  • There, near the border with Chile, the 1,722-square-mile park encompasses subantarctic forests that preserve habitats for species such as the guemal, puma, rhea, condor, guanaco, and the calafate plant.
    — Melissa Findley, National Geographic, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The Rewilding team will eventually move a breeding population here to join the ranks of guanaco, choique (southern rhea), pichi (small armadillos), gray foxes, and pumas, who also manage to survive on these inhospitable mesas.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Marked by verdant steppe and graceful waterways, windswept Magallanes feels even less visited than neighboring southern Argentina, and abundant fauna—picture a Patagonian safari featuring playful guanacos, ostrich-like ñandus, regal condors, and chinstrap penguins.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025

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