The Oregon Zoo is once again seeking volunteer pika watchers to scan Columbia River Gorge terrain for the tiny, squeaking mammals.

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

The 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 ...

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

Protecting the pika as endangered would help protect the species from direct harm and would also require the protection of the habitat necessary for the pika's survival and recovery. Just as ...

DESCRIPTION: The American pika is a small, herbivorous mammal with thick, light brown fur. It is about six to eight inches long and weighs four to six ounces. The animal is generally egg-shaped, with ...

Related to rabbits and hares and adapted to high-elevation habitat, the American pika faces a bleak future as temperatures rise and snow cover disappears National Treasure: Revealing the Stunning ...

But even more daunting was realising what tricky customers these pika would be to film. They were tiny - and very fast! The scree that formed their habitat was a complete maze, they would pop up ...