I’m at almost 11,500 feet, hiking to our research sites in the Front Range when I hear chirping and turn to see a small mammal scurrying across the rocks. The large, rounded ears are a dead giveaway: ...

The Front Range Pika Project, the U.S. Forest Service and Walking Mountains Science Center are seeking volunteers to do American pika surveys on the White River National Forest this summer. Volunteer ...

A pika in the ghost town of Bodie in California’s Sierra Nevada, where the rabbit relative’s populations are dwindling. climate.jpg On a bright, dry day last summer, biologist Lyle Nichols of Santa ...

People interested in that charismatic creature of the high country, the American pika, and perhaps in advancing pika science now can use a tool that most of us carry in our pocket to help them in that ...

The genus name Ochotona stems from the Mongolian word for pikas, ochodona. The species name princeps comes from the Latin word for chief, referring to the Chipewyan Indian name for the pika: “little ...

Early one August morning, on a rocky slope high in Montana’s Gallatin Range, biologist Chris Ray crouched on a boulder with a tiny, sedated furball in her hands. Ray has long, wavy salt-and-pepper ...