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: any of various short-eared small lagomorph mammals (family Ochotonidae) of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America with relatively short hind legs
called also coney, rock rabbit
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Other animals that live at high elevations are also in peril due to climate change, including wolverines and American pikas.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
Fortunately, lower-altitude pikas may be in luck as well.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
Pikas living at higher elevations, such as the large-eared pika, could defend against this because of variation in certain genes.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
Getty Images/iStockphoto Authorities have also described moose, salmon, snowshoe hares, American pikas, sea turtles, puffins, Alaskan caribou, piping plovers, polar bears and crocodiles as being at risk from climate change.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
Fortunately, lower-altitude pikas may be in luck as well.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
Pikas living at higher elevations, such as the large-eared pika, could defend against this because of variation in certain genes.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
Getty Images/iStockphoto Authorities have also described moose, salmon, snowshoe hares, American pikas, sea turtles, puffins, Alaskan caribou, piping plovers, polar bears and crocodiles as being at risk from climate change.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
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pika
noun
pi·ka
ˈpē-kə 
: any of various small short-eared mammals of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America that are related to the rabbits
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