CUSCO, Peru -- Traveling with pets is never easy, especially when your fur-baby is an alpaca. Walking around the streets of Cusco, Peru a visitor caught sight of an alpaca nonchalantly climbing into a ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A surprised witness on a Peru road captured video of an unusual sight -- an alpaca being loaded into the back seat of a taxi cab. Andre Mendivil posted a video to Instagram that he said ...

Some taxi drivers will scoff if you’re carrying a teacup pup and you wish to take it with you for the ride. But here’s one for whom it made no difference that the “pet” was actually a full grown ...

SAN ANTONIO DE PUTINA, Peru (AP) – Life for the thousands of indigenous families raising alpacas and sheep in Peru's southern Andes has become a nightmare amid a bitter cold wave that has killed tens ...

With temperatures falling to minus 9.4 Fahrenheit in this year's Southern Hemisphere winter, so far 50,000 alpacas have died this season. Authorities fear up 300,000 of the animals could perish if ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (THE WEATHER CHANNEL) – Peru has declared a ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Although they’re just seen as a silly-looking animal that resembles a llama to some, alpacas are vital to many Peruvians whose livelihoods depend on selling the animal’s ...

SAN ANTONIO DE PUTINA, Peru (AP) — After three days of heavy snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures, Mateo Mullisaca watches as one of his alpacas falls to the ground in agony on his farm almost ...