The Oregon Zoo is calling on volunteers to help monitor the American pika as part of the Cascades Pika Watch program.

The Oregon Zoo is looking for help tracking “the Columbia River Gorge’s fluffiest resident,” the zoo announced Tuesday.

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 ...

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 ...