If you’ve seen those trees and banisters around town covered in colorful yarn and wondered how it’s done, you’ll soon get some answers. The San Diego Yarn Crawl kicks off Thursday, bringing together ...

Alpacas are funny creatures. You’ve probably seen a funny video online of an alpaca spitting on a zoo-goer, but they also scream. What do these screams mean? Is it a simple way to communicate, or does ...

Kim Wesson likes to say alpacas found her. As she tends to her farm, baby alpacas — called crias — with their bony legs and large spirits, play with each other by frolicking and bumping necks. A sign ...

WAVERLY, Tenn. — In sunglasses, a fishing shirt and khaki shorts, Vanderbilt researcher Brian Wadzinski grabbed a bucket of feed and ambled into a pack of 14 adorable alpacas — but not all of them ...

They’re wooly. They’re friendly. And their big brown eyes just might melt your heart. They’re alpacas, and they’re the newest, cutest critters at The Shell Factory & Nature Park. The three females — ...

South American camelids, especially llamas and alpacas, are very susceptible to infections caused by endoparasites. The so-called small liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) is particularly ...

The Alpaca Owners Association, which is the world’s largest alpaca association, has just over 193,000 alpacas in its U.S. registry database. Dreamstime/TNS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Kim Wesson likes ...