Just as importantly, the species' protected status would be a strong call to action against global warming. To save the pika from demise, in 2007 the Center petitioned the state of California to list ...

Related to rabbits and hares and adapted to high-elevation habitat, the American pika faces a bleak future as temperatures rise and snow cover disappears What Is an Aurora? (03:13) National ...

“Among the smallest yet most charismatic of Colorado’s wildlife, the American pika is the alpinist cousin of the cottontail rabbit. Pikas have adapted to life at the roof of the Rockies, nearly ...