Have You Ever Met A Pika? - Page 2

Sugipine · ‎05-22-2016

I'm very familiar with pikas. In my mountain hiking days I saw many of them. They have a distinct call. They've been called 'mountain sentinels' b/c of their "EEP" calls to alert oncoming danger. Cutest things ever.

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Pikas are in the rabbit family. Some people call them 'rock rabbits'. They do not hibernate. Climate change has threatened their existence.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Bookplate,

Your post had me look up marmots.

I'd heard of them but have never seen one.

I got to watch the cutest videos just now on youtube of course of a marmot having a bath, a marmot eating sponge cake, eating watermelon- so many cute ones!

they are just too cute for words!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

DSD2 · ‎01-09-2016

I had never heard of a pika!

He's adorable!

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

@on the bay. Marmot are much larger than pikas, more like a groundhog, and not as hyper. I've seen them sitting on rocks by the road just watching the cars pass by.

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on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624,

They do remind me too of groundhogs, and my possum friend even the way they eat so loudly lol! They are so cute and so placid!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

Just too darn cute

sabatini · ‎06-29-2015

@Kachina624, I smiled when I saw this post. My youngest son did a report on pikas back in elementary school.

But marmots!!

Back in 2018, I was WOWED by London's Natural History Museum's Photographer of the Year award winner, Yongqing Bao.

His photograph was of a Mongolian marmot startled by a Tibetan fox.

It was titled "The Moment".

The museum described the picture as “a powerful frame of both humor and horror” that “captures the drama and intensity of nature.”

“This compelling picture captures nature’s ultimate challenge — its battle for survival,” Michael Dixon, the director of the Natural History Museum, said in a statement announcing the winners.

“Photographically, it is quite simply the perfect moment,” Roz Kidman Cox, the chairwoman of the judging panel and the former editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine, said in the statement. “The expressive intensity of the postures holds you transfixed, and the thread of energy between the raised paws seems to hold the protagonists in perfect balance.”

Muddling through...