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The Oregon Zoo is calling on volunteers to help monitor the American pika as part of the Cascades Pika Watch program.
The word pika comes from the name used by the Tunguses tribe in northeast Siberia. American pikas have historically also been referred to by such common names as cony, rock rabbit, mouse hare, ...
The Oregon Zoo needs volunteers to help find a rare animal in the Columbia River Gorge. Pikas [[ PIKE'-uhz ]] are normally found at high elevations, but there's a ...
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 ...
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10 Animals that live underground
Not every animal you see lives on land. Some dwell or spend most of their day underground. These animals can be found across continents including deserts and the Arctic. For these animals, living ...
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 ...