High up in the mountains, in a rocky world left behind by melting glaciers, life finds an unlikely jumpstart—thanks to poop.

Alpacas are herd animals indigenous to the Andes Mounts in South America. They are often used at petting zoos and children’s parties. Despite being closely related to the llama, the smaller ...

Westchester County Police Department/Facebook Alpacas are herd animals that are indigenous to the Andes Mounts in South America, and can be popular at petting zoos and children’s parties because ...

Alpacas are herd animals native to the Andes Mountains in South America and are closely related to llamas. However, they are not commonly seen roaming the suburbs of New York. The police ...

they found the locals in the Andes happy to hand over their gold. Rather than set a store by rare metals, the Incans preferred to measure someone's worth by the quality and number of alpacas they ...

Cheyenne, Wyo. - Coming to the Archer Event Center for the first Weekend of May is the Great Western Alpaca Show (GWAS).

The high-altitude regions of Bolivia, particularly near Lake Titicaca, offer a traditional setting to see alpacas in their ...

World-renowned climate scientists travel there to monitor global climate change in the receding glaciers of the Andes. The Quechua alpaca herders living at the edges of these glaciers are likewise ...