Collared Pika

Pika are the high country's barometers. They evolved for a cold environment, and a simple rise of a degree in average temperature stresses them. Stress for a Pika means death. Given that, they are in trouble in the Rocky Mountains.

This Pika is sitting in a bouquet of colors. That bouquet are the lichens, their colors accentuated by the fog.

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This Pika is sitting in a bouquet of colors. That bouquet are the lichens, their colors accentuated by the fog.

Pika Denali National Park Alaska mammal Rodent Collared Pika Ochotona collaris Rock Rabbit Whistling Hare Coney Little Chief Hare September

Tracey Harmon Photography

Collared Pika