Spring is approaching and wildflowers are in bloom! In the mountains of the Western U.S., the American Pika is ready to feast on these flowers! The pika is a tiny creature, roughly the length of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— Today the Center for Biological Diversity filed a scientific petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the American pika under the federal Endangered Species ...

The high-alpine rabbit relative, the American pika, does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to a ruling Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The decision was ...

The American pika can only survive in a narrow temperature band and can suffer heat stroke at temperatures as mild as 80 degrees. The California Fish and Game Commission is asking for public input on ...

Global warming is forcing the American pika up mountains and towards extinction. LOVELAND PASS, Colo., May 9, 2007 — -- Voted the second cutest animal in North America in a recent World Wildlife ...

Climate change might be wiping out some populations of the American pika, a relative of the rabbit, but not enough to warrant legal protection for the tiny mountain-dwelling animal that lives in ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

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The Obama administration Thursday declined to list the American pika as endangered, denying environmentalists’ contention that the tiny mountain-dwelling creature will be unable to survive climate ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - U.S. officials on Tuesday rejected greater protections for six species including the rabbit-like American pika, which researchers warn is disappearing from areas of the West as ...

Tiny bunny "falling off the tops of mountains" because of climate change. Dec. 30, 2009 — -- The American pika-- tiniest member of the bunny family -- once was voted "3rd Cutest Animal in North ...