These lovely tiny animals live high in the mountains and don't love the heat. If you've never heard about pikas, you just need to see these cute pictures and learn some basic facts about them.
American Pikas are small members of the Lagomorph order which is the same order that includes rabbits. Contrary to their appearance, Pikas are not rodents. American Pikas live in rocky tundra habitats above the tree line where they forage and store vegetation to feed on through the long winter months. They live in highly social groups and give a variety of barking calls back and forth to other individuals. If you watch Pikas long enough, you can learn the typical routes that they take from their foraging areas to the rocky crevices where they store their food. I watched this Pika for awhile before I picked a location to sit. Once I sat at the location for about 20 minutes they were completely adjusted to my presence and resumed their foraging activities.
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Closely related to the rabbit, pikas call high mountain peaks their home. Some populations reside within the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California and Nevada. A key characteristic of the American...
The Plateau Pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a medium-sized lagomorph (c140g) that occurs mainly on the high desert plateaux of China, but also in Tibet, Pakistan, India and Nepal. They look a bit like Gerbils but are in the same family as rabbits and hares, but have oddly human ears. It gets really cold in winter on the Tibetan Plateau yet they do not hibernate, being active year round. They are also only active during the day when they feed on grasses and sedges, sleeping in their burrows at night. They also occur in extraordinary abundance and are the main prey item for most of the predators that occur on the plateaux (Tibetan Fox, Pallas's Cat, Chinese Mountain Cat, Saker Falcon, Upland Buzzard, Steppe Eagle, Eagle Owl). I photographed this courting couple in the snow at Rouergai nearly 4000m on the Tibetan Plateau. There was a blanket of snow on the ground but they prepare for that by keeping a store of hay in their burrows, to get them through the times when snow covers their feeding grounds.
Research published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment last month that examines how wildlife adapts to the impacts of global climate change focuses on the American pika, a small, tailless mammal that exhibits a range of adaptive behavioral changes, as a case study. The authors of the study note that there are […]
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The American Pika is a small mammal that lives in the alpine area at the tops of the Rocky Mountains. Here is some basic information about this mammal.
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American Pika, courtesy of Dick Terpstra (public domain). The High-Altitude "Haymaker" Pikas are small, cold-loving mammals that inhabit high-elevation regions all over the world, including the Himalayas and mountain ranges in Eurasia. The American Pika lives in the mountains of North America. Adapted to a narrow set of living condition, pikas do not hibernate but
These lovely tiny animals live high in the mountains and don't love the heat. If you've never heard about pikas, you just need to see these cute pictures and learn some basic facts about them.
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American Pika - Rocky Mountain National Park
