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Goats, alpacas and llamas, oh my. This weekend at the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival in the Hudson Valley of New York, those animals will face off in Leaping Llamas, an event to see which can clear ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Andrea Parent-Tibbetts owner of Clover Brook Farm in Hyde Park, New York, about leaping llamas, an event at the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Festival where animals compete to ...

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