The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and ... Rising temperatures threaten pikas by shortening the period available for them to gather food, changing ...

A collared pika with a mouthful of their winter cache – it can take up to 11,000 return journeys to collect enough food to last the coming winter. It’s truly extraordinary that pikas can ...

An in-depth exploration of how altitude changes affect the gut microbiota of plateau animals is crucial for uncovering the ...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is ramping up its surveys of wildlife in the state’s most remote reaches, including in ...

The word pika comes from the name used by the Tunguses tribe in northeast Siberia ... They collect vegetation and store it in haypiles as a food source for the winter months. Different plants are ...

Why it's awesome: Central Siberia may be a harsh and challenging environment, but that doesn't stop the Turuchan pika from having ... to be playing with their food before eating it.