For three weeks, a mysterious visitor has been haunting Pikes Peak, buzzing the trains, amusing the tourists and confounding efforts to catch it.
For the “lone llama of Pikes Peak,” whose species comes from high in the Andes Mountains of South America, the peak must seem like home. The llama is apparently eating well, though it may be lonely — officials say it has taken an interest in the peak’s herd of bighorn sheep.
Sadly for the llama, a herd animal by instinct, that interest has been unrequited.
But with winter coming and hungry mountain lions and coyotes about, some llama lovers say there are bigger threats than loneliness. A rescue group is trying to coordinate the llama’s capture and return it to where it belongs, among a herd.
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