A camelid (family Camelidae), up to 85 cm tall at the shoulder, with a long, woolly coat, brown on the back and white on the chest and throat. They graze the grass plains high in the Andes of southern Peru, western Bolivia, north-western Argentina, and northern Chile in family groups of a male and up to 15 females, with their young. Vicuñas are captured, sheared, and released into the wild, their wool commanding high prices.