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 ...

The word pika comes from the name used by the Tunguses tribe in northeast Siberia. American pikas have historically also been referred to by such common names as cony, rock rabbit, mouse hare, ...

I have been photographing high up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This portion of the Rockies has a lot of peaks over 10,000 feet and even some over 14,000. At these heights it is ...