A time may come when you find out that someone has copied your site or part of it. What can you do about it?
First, if it's not a complete swipe, take a careful look at what has been copied. Is it attributed to you? Is it just a brief quote in the form of a comment or as part of a description of your site? Are other sites quoted in similar fashion and volume? Refer back to the discussion on "fair use"; you can be the subject of it just as much as anyone else can. This is where you exercise my suggestion to put yourself in someone else's head: do you approve of the way they've quoted you — is it the same sort of thing that you'd do with their material? If so, then let it go; maybe boast about it in the next update of your site: "so-and-so has cited my work favorably — check it out at www.example.com". Perhaps you'll want to get in touch with the site author and suggest they put in a link to your site (and perhaps return the compliment.) By all means keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't become unfair use but otherwise keep cool. Remember the adage about "any kind of publicity..."
LLAMA FACTS: The complete zoological nomenclature for the llama is Mammalia/artodactylia/tylopoda/camelidae/Lama Glama/Llama.
(This means: mammalian/ same number of toes on the front and back feet/ padded feet/ camel family. Of course, you knew that.)
The camelids are the only fully plantigrade ungulates. They have selodont cheek teeth, caniform upper incisors, and a long rostrum. The post-cranial skeleton is notable mostly because of the condition of the legs.
All of this is important. Don't you forget it.
Llewellyn is very thorough.
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