# Llamas have fangs.. seriously! Who knew? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 6, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689 "2005-02-06T20:10:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/21 "2005-02-07T11:35:07Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > La llama es un quadrupedo, que vive en rios grandes como el Amazona. **En**? Como los pescados?? ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/22 "2005-02-07T12:21:25Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Allow me to translate: Llama’s have four feet and like to shop online at Amazon. **Llamas have four feet?!??** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/23 "2005-02-07T18:45:44Z")
> [@Mishell](#): > > Cuidado! Llamas! Están encariñados con la miel! (They are fond of honey!) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/24 "2005-02-07T19:26:35Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > La llama es un quadrupedo, que vive en rios grandes como el Amazona. And they can skeletonise a pirahna in under thirty seconds! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/25 "2005-02-07T20:05:59Z")
Wow, I never suspected such viciousness from llamas. They always look so peaceful chanting in the saffron prayer robes. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/26 "2005-02-07T21:41:37Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > La llama es un quadrupedo, que vive en rios grandes como el Amazona. Alternate translation: The llama has four children, who live to hear the great song Rio (by Duran Duran), bought on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com). ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/27 "2005-02-07T22:09:43Z")
Add another to the closet of irrational fears. Well. At least they don’t _fly_. Right? _Right?_ ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/28 "2005-02-07T22:10:32Z")
They also have a beak for eating honey \*this post brought to you by Llama-fresh farms, inc. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/29 "2005-02-07T22:16:37Z")
Well, it’s still not as bad as a moose bite. ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/30 "2005-02-07T22:47:29Z")
A moose once bit my sister, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/31 "2005-02-07T22:48:54Z")
OK. I’ll do it. Helllloooo, Dali! Thos in charge of sacking the dentists who were in charge of de-fanging the llamas have all been sacked. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/32 "2005-02-07T23:20:28Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Thos in charge of sacking the dentists who were in charge of de-fanging the llamas have all been sacked. The directors of the firm hired to continue de-fanging the llamas the after the other dentists had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The dental work has been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/33 "2005-02-07T23:40:44Z")
Were those Peruvian Llamas or Andean Llamas? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/34 "2005-02-07T23:44:14Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Were those Peruvian Llamas or Andean Llamas? I don’t know. Aieee!!! Stranger ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/35 "2005-02-07T23:55:17Z")
You have to know these things when you’re a king. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/36 "2005-02-08T01:44:29Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Add another to the closet of irrational fears. > > Well. At least they don’t _fly_. > > Right? > > _Right?_ Of course they don’t fly. _nervous laugh_ What a silly idea! _shifty eyes_ Heh, heh. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/37 "2005-02-08T01:52:29Z")
I, on the other hand, \*can \* fly. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/38 "2005-02-08T02:19:30Z")
Originally Posted by **Askance** : > [@](#): > > La llama es un quadrupedo, que vive en rios grandes como el Amazona. > [@elfkin477](#): > > **En**? Como los pescados?? _No, como los peces._ A living fish is _un pez_. _Pescado_ refers to an ichthyological specimen that’s been removed from the water as a prelude to being consumed as food. Also, the word for “quadruped” is spelled _cuadrúpedo_. And, of course. llamas don’t actually live **in** the big rivers – the first sentence (fragment) of my reply is grammatically, but not otherwise, correct. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/39 "2005-02-08T02:23:19Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Were those Peruvian Llamas or Andean Llamas? It was a tablet brick potato llama. Or possibly a llama llama duck. You know, the word “llama” looks _really_ weird if you see it written out so often. Look at it! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689/40 "2005-02-08T04:26:07Z")
Now tell us where the llama is and we’ll burn your house to the ground. Don’t you mean “or”? Okay, tell us where the llama is _or_ we’ll burn your house to the ground. Well, which one is it? That seems to be a crucial conjunction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/llamas-have-fangs-seriously-who-knew/288689.md?page=3)