Scientists from the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have completed a 13-year long investigation into the survival strategies of an enigmatic ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pika makes about 14,000 trips a year to gather vegetation for the winter. Their hay piles weigh about 65 pounds. (Courtesy of ...
These animals have round ears and are about the size of your fist, although they're more closely related to rabbits and hares. From 1981 to 1990, Charles Southwick, a former professor at CU Boulder, ...
Climate change is without doubt the greatest threat to the pika population of the Rocky Mountains. Biologist have discovered that the average elevation in which pikas survive and thrive has risen 900 ...
A Colorado research project is gaining new insights into where pikas live, thanks to a smartphone app that allows hikers to log sightings of the small alpine mammals. The Pika Patrol app has received ...
Dr. Jessica Castillo Vardaro, Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University American pikas (Ochotona princeps) are small, adorable mammals found throughout the mountains of western ...
People interested in that charismatic creature of the high country, the American pika, and perhaps in advancing pika science now can use a tool that most of us carry in our pocket to help them in that ...
On a breezy August afternoon in Rocky Mountain National Park, as I stepped out of the car along Trail Ridge Drive, a slope of loose angular rocks known as talus caught my attention. It looked just ...
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder carries a warning for one of the Rocky Mountains’ most iconic animals—the American pika (Ochotona princeps), a small and fuzzy creature that often ...