pika: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	piping hare • whistling hare • Ochotona • mousehare • cony • little chief hare • coney

Photos and Videos

American pika (Ochotona princeps)

pika sitting on rocks

Watch a pika forage for food in mountainous terrain and deliver a litter of fully dependent hairless pups

Examine the preparation measures taken by foraging pikas and hibernating ground squirrels

Survival strategy of the pika in the Sayan Mountains

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steppe pika Ochotona macrotis collared pika Koslov’s pika northern pika Ochotonidae

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