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LEXINGTON, Ky., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kentucky Alpaca Association (KAA) is pleased to announce the 13(th) Annual Kentucky Classic Alpaca Show held April 13-14 at the Fasig-Tipton Auction Complex located at 2400 Newtown Pike in Lexington. The show is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 from 8:30 a.m. until the completion of show classes mid-afternoon. The public and press are invited to attend the show, which is free to...

Machu Picchu, the famous Inca city set in the Peruvian Andes, celebrates the centenary of its 'discovery' by the outside world. Now, a study published in archaeological review Antiquity explains that lowly llama droppings provided the basis for the growth of Incan society, BBC News reports.As agriculture became established over hunting to sustain the community about 2,700 years ago in the Cuzco area where Machu Picchu sits, the development of agriculture and the growing of maize...

Officials at a North Carolina golf course said they have taken to using rented llamas as caddies for members. The Sherwood Golf Course in Cedar Mountain, N.C., said the llamas are available for caddying Tuesdays for a fee of $40 for nine holes, WSPA-TV, Spartanburg, S.C., reported Wednesday. Mark English, owner of the golf club, said the llamas have proven a hit with golfers and he is hoping to spread the llama program to other area golf courses. He said while doing his research in preparing...

Two llamas on the lam in Louisville, Ky., have been safely herded and returned to their home, their owner says. The llamas' owner, Dale Hill of the Louisville Llama Farm, surmised beer bottles found near the animals' barn indicated some party animals decided to free the beasts, which are raised for their wool, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal reported Saturday. Hill said the 10 female llamas escaped, but only two -- Felicity and Prism -- wandered off the property. Prism was found along a...

Two llamas owned by Terry McCrone served as honor guard members for the Ohio man's funeral, his pastor says. The Rev. Bob Ladygo of Madison Township's Bible Baptist Church said McCrone, of Plymouth Township, loved the llamas he raised on his farm so much that they appeared to check in on McCrone as he lay dying of cancer in his home, The (Willoughby, Ohio) News-Herald reported Saturday. It was as if they were telling him that now it was their turn to take care of him, said the pastor, who...

By Michael Janusonis If nothing else, Bolivian director Rodrigo Bellot's wacky road comedy Who Killed the White Llama?, being shown tomorrow as part of the Providence Latin American Film Festival, proves that Bolivia is almost as maniacally screwed up as the United States. (I might not have made that equation as recently as last week, but the current nutty events on Wall Street and Washington seem to have us pulling ahead of the Bolivians.) At the very funny start of Bellot's film, a...

FOURTEEN Britons were among a group of tourists held captive and beaten with iron bars at a remote llama farm in Peru. A mob of 80 locals forced the party off their tour bus after smashing the windows with rocks. The villagers mistook the holidaymakers for mining company workers, who they blame for damaging their land. Tour guide Isabel Surco said: "We were stopped by the entire village calling us thieves and saying we were there to set up mines and steal their resources." After a...