the vicuña and guanaco can be found living in the altiplano, while the closely related domesticated llama and alpaca are commonly kept by locals as pack animals and for their meat and wool. the nocturnal chinchillas, two threatened members of the rodent order, live in the andes' alpine regions. the andean condor, the largest bird of its kind in the western hemisphere, lives throughout much of the andes but mostly in very low numbers. other animals found in the mostly open habitats of the high andes are the huemul, cougar, and foxes in the genus "pseudalopex". and for birds, some species of tinamous (they are members of the genus "nothoprocta"), are the andean goose, giant coot, flamingos (mainly associated with hypersaline lakes), lesser rhea, andean flicker, diademed sandpiper-plover, miners, sierra-finches and diuca-finches.