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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For the first time, biologists know where Wyoming’s pikas dwell — at least for nowThe whereabouts of the pint-sized pika, a mammalian indicator species that is losing its alpine habitat to climate change, have been mapped for the first time in Wyoming’s reaches of the Rocky ...
Pika occupancy surveys targeted alpine habitats in the Bighorns and other mountain ranges around the state, including the central Rocky Mountains and the Snowies. Pikas are small mammals with a body ...
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