Although Smith and Wei-Dong did not see a live Ili pika during their expedition, they found the animal's characteristic fecal deposits and distinctive snow tracks. From this, they concluded that ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

one unlikely star of the Mammals Cold episode is a real-life Pokémon, the pika. There are around 30 species of pika across the globe and, like their close relatives rabbits and hares, none of ...