- Whitetop, a 27-year-old Llama working at Camp Camp Victory, was declared the world’s oldest Llama in captivity by Guinness World Records last week.
- Victory Junction is a free, free North Carolina camp, created for chronically ill children with disabilities. It was founded by Nascar Star Richard Petty and his family.
- Whitetop is known for his quiet, sweet and empathetic personality. He comforts the campists by lying while they caress.
A bucktoothed lamp that spends its days by comforting the sick chronic children in a North Carolina camp founded by Nascar Royalty, is crowned the world’s oldest Llama in captivity.
In 27 years and more than 250 days, Llama Selfie- and Snuggle-Loving called Whitetop Detroned Dalai Llama announced Guinness’s world data last week. Dalai lived on a farm in Albuquerque and was announced as the oldest in 2023 shortly after his 27th birthday.
Whitetop was donated to the 2006 Crucifixion Camp in 2006, just two years after the car driver Kyle Petty – Nascar son Richard Petty – and his family founded the camp in honor of Petty’s own son Adam, who was 19 when he was killed in a 2000 clash while practicing a race.
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Children posing for a photo with Llama Whitop on Victory Junction, a chronic child camp, Randleman, North Carolina, in 2023. (Crossing the victory through AP)
The free year -round camp decreases in 84 hectares in the small town of Randleman, North Carolina, about 75 miles west of Raleigh. Designed for children with conditions that include cancer, kidney and heart disease, cerebral palsy, spina bifida and a range of neurological and physical abilities.
Whitetop has become known for his quiet, sweet and empathetic personality. His move to move is to lie while the campists caress it, which can comfort their children and make them significant sensory contributions, said Billie Davis, the director of the camp barn.
“He really gets to help campists get out of their shell when they interact with,” she said. “He may be a kind of intimidating in the beginning, but after they come to him and love him and caress upon him, they simply understand how sweet he is.”
Sarah Wilcox, Billie No Davis and Evan Bailey stay with Whitetop, who was crowned the world’s oldest Llama in captivity by Guinness World Records, in Randleman, North Carolina, on 25 February 2025. (Crossing the victory through AP)
One of his best friends is a miniature cow of the Highlands named Gus-Gus, who tends to forget Whitetop is a llama and enjoys dancing on it. Whitetop also likes to roll in fresh pieces of wood, wrapped in soaked alfalfa and present for selfies.
“If you try to take a picture of him on one side, he is not in it,” Davis said. “He will, how to carve there and will try to take his face from a side profile so that it is as if he were cute.”
Davis attributes the long life of whitetop care and great veterinary exercises, as well as simply loving his work.
The average life expectancy of a Llama is 15 years, according to the Zoo Denver’s preservation alliance.
Whitetop sits on Victory Junction, a chronic child camp, Randleman, North Carolina. (Crossing the victory through AP)
Whitetop has developed arthritis in his twilight years, but otherwise it is very healthy, Davis said. And the only time Llama gets bored is when gus-gus, along with two miniature donkeys called Jed and Jathro, leave it alone.
Stephanie Wilkerson, 33, first went to the 2006 camp family weekend after she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. She said she was initially a little nervous about Whitetop but quickly realized her caressing her and giving her hugs to feel better.
“When I started hitting him more and more, I calmed down more,” said Wilkerson, who lives in Thomasville, North Carolina.
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With Whitetop’s new fame in longevity, the camp has begun selling T -shirts with limited edition showing Whitetop with sunglasses and words, “Still Spit’n”. Revenue goes to the camp.
Although Davis said Whitetop would like people to know not all lamina spit on you.
“Typically the lams spit only when they are scared, uncomfortable or territorial for something,” she said. “And he just loves his work so much that he doesn’t.”
