• Crossbreeding llamas and alpacas produces offspring called huarizo, while vicuñas and alpacas produce pacovicuña, which is unable to reproduce. Pacovicuña has a gentle character and is suitable as a domestic animal.
• Gestation is about 11.5 months; twins are extremely rare.

Alpacas reproduce sexually, always through fertilization and without generational changes; the female carries a single offspring and gives birth to it. The gestation period for alpacas is 11 months and 1 week, resulting in a litter size of 1, and the young are born live on land. The mother feeds the offspring with milk. Sexual maturity occurs between 1 and 3 years of age, and the interval between reproduction cycles is from 1 to 2 years. The species inhabits and develops on land, outside of bodies of water.