Subject: Llama Nnews
From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Date: 1991-01-30, 15:17
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

OK, there's been some debate about whether the ungulate in 1/26 was a
llama, an alpaca or what, so I did a little research.  I looked up
some pictures of all of the various candidate species and ran them
through a digitzer.  I'll put them up here, and you can download one
of the frames from that scene from uunet and compare for yourself.

Unfortunately the pictures came out a little small, though, so it's
best to view them on a display with at least 2048 pixels per inch
(4096 is better), or else a lot of the detail is going to be lost.

OK:

LLAMA:                      ~m

VICUNA:                     ~m

ALPACA:                     ~m

and just for comparison, here's a

CAMEL:                      ~m

I think you'll all agree these show pretty conclusively that the
animal is a llama.  Either that or a brontosaurus, but market research
says dinosaurs are pretty much for the kidvid market only.

-- Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 "The sun is one foot wide" --Heraclitus