Pika, Small Mammal, High-Altitude Adaptation & Conservation

Pika, (genus Ochotona), small short-legged and virtually tailless egg-shaped mammal found in the mountains of western North America and much of Asia. Despite their small size, body shape, and round ears, pikas are not rodents but the smallest representatives of the lagomorphs, a group otherwise

Genomic variation in the American pika: signatures of geographic isolation and implications for conservation, BMC Ecology and Evolution

American Pika

Discovered: The World's Highest-Dwelling Mammal - Cool Green Science

Variation in subsurface thermal characteristics of microrefuges used by range core and peripheral populations of the American pika (Ochotona princeps) - Rodhouse - 2017 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library

Supercute Mammal Rediscovered

American Pika - Ochotona princeps - Carnivora

Is The American Pika Really On The Road To Extinction Due to Climate Change?

The American pika: A case study in wildlife acclimating to climate change

Federal agency denies protections for tiny pika - The San Diego Union-Tribune

American Pika

Frontiers Differential Expression of Metabolism-Related Genes in Plateau Pika (Ochotona curzoniae) at Different Altitudes on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Three High-Altitude Peoples, Three Adaptations to Thin Air