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Run Vicuña Run
Vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), one of the two wild South American camelids. Lives in bachelor groups or family groups typically composed of a dominant male, 3 or 4 females and about 2 offsprings. This vicuña was lagged behind the group, its instinct leads it to run to join the safety provided by family, which lives at 4100 masl in the Puna formed in the west Mountainside of Chimborazo volcano with 6,268 meters of high (at the background).
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||Nov. 27, 2014, 6:49 a.m.