Funny Llamas

June 4, 2010

We have some funny llamas.  They’re almost as bad as the goats for getting into trouble.  In fact, I may have wrongly accused our little goat in “The Trouble With Goats” post.  It’s possible she chomped up on my flowers, but if she did, I have the evidence of my own two eyes that she isn’t the only one enjoying a sedum salad.

Funny llamas like sedum salad!

What a rotten rascal!  And here I was sure it was the goat doing it!

But funny llamas have other tricks.  For instance, they are very good at playing dead.

Funny llamas like to play dead.

You can stand in the field screaming and hollering and they never twitch an ear until you get up close and they finally look up at you like, “Whattt????”

And funny llamas like to get in your face when you’re trying to take pictures.

Keira, our female llama, trying to sniff the camera.

And it’s not just our nosy Keira.  The boy llama, Samson, has his share of nosiness.

"What's that thing growing on your face?"

And he’s prone to look pretty funny when he’s thinking about courting…

It's called a "flehmen response" ...

(In case you’re wondering, llamas and some other animals do this after smelling another animal’s scent… in this case, the female llamas droppings.)

And sometimes, they wear funny ornaments. . .

What strange apparel!

They make funny faces and do funny things… oh yeah, they’re funny llamas all right!

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