Sometimes, being a researcher is repetitive and boring — all those lab tests and mice studies. And sometimes, being a researcher means shearing alpacas for science. If you’re not familiar with alpacas ...

HOPEWELL -- The fleece is flying everywhere. Nathan Good, a professional sheep and alpaca shearer is moving his clippers back and forth down the side of a 3-year-old Suri alpaca named Copper Penny, ...

POWELL - For Fandango the alpaca, a haircut is a pain in the neck. He whines. He fights. He spits green gunk. Yet now that it's through, he'll feel much better on hot summer days, free of around 10 ...

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Spend enough time around alpacas and you get used to their distinct noises, even the screeches some of them let out during a shearing. Brent Winslow has given many an alpaca a haircut over the years.

Daryl Gohl is president of Quechua Benefit, which brings medical, dental and optical care to the highlands of Peru. The nonprofit group also provides clothing, medicine, shelter, food and sociological ...

They’re not going into the army, but these gentle giants all shared the same hairdo after the clippers were finished. Inside a cozy barn at the Sopris Alpaca Farm on Saturday, 60 alpacas were trimmed ...