Animalz

Pika

  • Alpine Pika Ochotona (Pika) alpina
    Alpine Pika
    Photo: Avustfel · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Ochotona alpina occurs in mountain regions of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China. Summer coat color varies among populations from yellowish gray to reddish brown.

  • Helan Shan Pika Ochotona (Pika) argentata
    Helan Shan Pika
    Photo: Joseph P. Lambert, Jingyao Li, Yibin Li, Xuehan Hou, and Kun Shi · CC BY 4.0

    This pika lives in China's Helan Shan. Its coat changes with the seasons, appearing bright red in summer and silvery gray in winter.

  • Collared Pika Ochotona (Pika) collaris
    Collared Pika
    Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0

    The collared pika has a collar-like pattern from the nape to the shoulders. It uses rocky slopes and nearby meadows, gathering plants for winter.

  • Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea
    Northern Pika
    Photo: Юрий Емельянов · CC BY-SA 4.0

    A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

  • Manchurian Pika Ochotona (Pika) mantchurica
    Manchurian Pika
    Photo: Анна Васильченко · CC BY 4.0

    This pika is found in northeastern China. Recent research models suitable habitat in nearby areas, but predicted areas are not the same as confirmed occupied sites.

  • Mongolian Pika Ochotona (Pika) pallasi
    Mongolian Pika
    Photo: Arabsalam · CC BY-SA 4.0

    The Mongolian Pika is a small pika whose coat is lighter in summer and darker in winter. It is active by day around its burrow and stores gathered grasses as food for winter.

  • American Pika Ochotona (Pika) princeps

    The American pika is a small mammal of the mountains of western North America. It does not hibernate and gathers plants for winter food.

  • Turuchan Pika Ochotona (Pika) turuchanensis

    The Turuchan Pika eats plants and gathers them into stores. Research describes its coat and feeding choices, while taxonomists continue to debate whether it should be treated as a separate species.

  • Hoffmann's Pika Ochotona (Pika) hoffmanni

    Hoffmann's pika occurs in the subalpine Hentiyn Nuruu and Bayan-Ulan mountains of Mongolia and the Erman Range in Russia.

  • Kazakh Pika Ochotona (Pika) opaca

    Ochotona opaca is a rock-dwelling pika from eastern Kazakhstan. Its summer back is gray-brown with an ochre tint, while the underside is sandy white.

  • American Pika Ochotona (Pika) princeps

    The American pika is a small mammal of the mountains of western North America. It does not hibernate and gathers plants for winter food.

  • Northern Pika Ochotona (Pika) hyperborea

    A pika whose coat is reddish in summer and grayer in winter. It lives among rocky talus in moist conifer forests and stores plants as hay.

  • Mongolian Pika Ochotona (Pika) pallasi

    The Mongolian Pika is a small pika whose coat is lighter in summer and darker in winter. It is active by day around its burrow and stores gathered grasses as food for winter.

  • Collared Pika Ochotona (Pika) collaris

    The collared pika has a collar-like pattern from the nape to the shoulders. It uses rocky slopes and nearby meadows, gathering plants for winter.

  • Manchurian Pika Ochotona (Pika) mantchurica

    This pika is found in northeastern China. Recent research models suitable habitat in nearby areas, but predicted areas are not the same as confirmed occupied sites.

  • Alpine Pika Ochotona (Pika) alpina

    Ochotona alpina occurs in mountain regions of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China. Summer coat color varies among populations from yellowish gray to reddish brown.

  • Turuchan Pika Ochotona (Pika) turuchanensis

    The Turuchan Pika eats plants and gathers them into stores. Research describes its coat and feeding choices, while taxonomists continue to debate whether it should be treated as a separate species.

  • Helan Shan Pika Ochotona (Pika) argentata

    This pika lives in China's Helan Shan. Its coat changes with the seasons, appearing bright red in summer and silvery gray in winter.