Dec. 30, 2009 — -- The American pika-- tiniest member of the bunny family ... a 1950's Disney mood when designing this terminally cute rock-scrambler, beloved of mountain hikers in ...

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 ...

Could this cute little pika disappear, a victim of climate change? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says no; the agency declined to place the mammal on the Endangered Species List last Friday.

Or, you could go in quest of cute. The Gorge’s cutest creature must be the American pika, a relative of the rabbit that resembles nothing so much as a fat, fuzzy potato with mouselike ears and ...