Unlike some other cold-weather animals, pikas can’t rely on blubber, winter weight-gain, or sleeping through the cold months. (Learn more about another teddy bear-faced pika rediscovered in China.) ...

(Read about the Asian plateau pika’s unique way of surviving the winter.) In the 2000s, researchers began to notice declines in pika populations at lower elevations, especially in Nevada and ...

(Photo by Joseph Stewart) Pikas spend the summer gathering grasses and wildflowers to store in “haypiles” for winter subsistence. When summer temperatures are too high, they are forced to stay ...

and reducing insulating snowpack that protects them from cold snaps in the winter. Most directly, warming can also cause the animals to die from overheating. Protecting the pika as endangered would ...

SHIKAOI, Hokkaido -- Northern pika, a species that is said to have survived the ice age and whose domestic cohort inhabits in limited alpine areas in Hokkaido, are preparing for winter in the ...

Pika Pika describes its flavor as if “a lime ... This calamansi marmalade doesn’t just tide me over until winter citrus season, which I still eagerly await. It’s become a constant source ...