pika
any of several small, brown to gray tailless mammals of the genus Ochotona, resembling rabbits with short ears and legs and inhabiting western mountains of North America and parts of eastern Europe and Asia.
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At those temps, the grass that pikas usually eat becomes dry and brittle.
Some pikas survive winter by eating yak poop | Jonathan Lambert | September 3, 2021 | Science News For StudentsIt would greatly cut down how long pikas needed to spend out in the cold, Speakman says.
Some pikas survive winter by eating yak poop | Jonathan Lambert | September 3, 2021 | Science News For StudentsTo conserve energy, plateau pikas drop their metabolism by about 30 percent.
Some pikas survive winter by eating yak poop | Jonathan Lambert | September 3, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThe researchers caught pikas scarfing scat on video, and DNA evidence from stomach contents solidified that this behavior is common.
Pikas survive winter using a slower metabolism and, at times, yak poop | Jonathan Lambert | July 19, 2021 | Science NewsIn slide rock and in bouldery moraines up as high as thirteen thousand feet, one finds the pika, or cony.
The Rocky Mountain Wonderland | Enos A. Mills
And that is how Little Chief the pika learned to make hay while the sun shone in the days of plenty.
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories | Thornton W. BurgessOn the wildest and most desolate peaks and rock piles is found the cony or pika or "rock rabbit" as it is variously called.
The Lake of the Sky | George Wharton JamesSense of smell was used by an M. e. muricus that Dixon (1931:72) watched as the ermine followed a three-fourths-grown pika.
American Weasels | E. Raymond HallThe pikas worked a relay system and the weasel abandoned the trail when the fourth pika became the object of the chase.
American Weasels | E. Raymond Hall
British Dictionary definitions for pika
/ (ˈpaɪkə) /
any burrowing lagomorph mammal of the family Ochotonidae of mountainous regions of North America and Asia, having short rounded ears, a rounded body, and rudimentary tail: Also called: cony
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