Pikas

They needn't have bothered because I think by this point the pikas were a greater threat to us than we were to them as we hauled our bodies ever upwards with ever increasingly quivering leg muscles. ❋ RICHARD O'NEILL For The News-Review (2009)

China? mountain pikasAction: Improve grassland habitat by stopping large-scale poisoning of mountain pikas ❋ Guillaume Chapron (2010)

IUCN is using the occasion to stress that, despite their reputation as prolific love-makers, nearly one in four rabbits, hares and pikas are threatened with extinction – mostly due to mankind's inroads. ❋ AP (2011)

When pikas are prevented from regulating their temperature behaviorally and are exposed to even slight warming -- temperatures of 77 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours -- they die. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The American pika may be an early-warning indicator of generally how alpine species may respond to contemporary climate change," said Erik Beever, Ph. D., a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the past 16 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"We think these may be more at risk [than pikas]," said Millar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am writing a feature about pikas, and hope to visit with a biologist working on them at Yellowstone but that may not be possible... again you may remember Dad and I went pika-spotting in Glacier a couple years back pics are at the blog post in previous link with grad student Lucas Moyer-Horner and I will be writing up that experience in this article. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2009)

Rabbits, hares and pikas have similar teeth, except that each incisor has another tooth in back of it propping it forward. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two families, the Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and the Ochotonidae (pikas). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The pikas appear somewhat later, in the Oligocene of eastern Asia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have a feature due mid-November so I plan to try to get my book draft done next week then shift my focus again to pikas, the topic of my next article. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2009)

Most of the ecoregion's mammals are small species, such as the Himalayan palm civet, pale weasel, Himalayan weasel, pikas, and voles, that scurry about the undergrowth and among the boulders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rabbits, hares and pikas: Status survey and conservation action plan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In general, their most common prey consists of wild sheep and goats but also includes pikas (Ochotona spp.), hares (Lepus spp.), and gamebirds (chukar partridge and snowcocks). ❋ Unknown (2008)