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In Hokkaido, pika live in the jagged, intricate spaces between and around massive piles of rock at high altitude. This rock started as volcanic lava flows that solidified, then broke into millions of pieces as water seeped into cracks and fissures, expanding when it froze and contracting when it thawed, through the winters and summers of time, leaving towering heaps of boulders behind.
Concealed in the maze of this fragmented landscape, palm-sized pika are not easy to count. To solve for this, Tomoki carries a loudspeaker up the mountain on his back. He blasts a recording of a pika cry across the landscape.
I learned about pikas from Tomoki Sakiyama, a 29-year-old graduate student at Hokkaido University, during my recent trip to Japan\u2019s northernmost island. He studies the northern pika that lives across northern Asia, focusing on precisely this question.
Tomoki listens carefully and counts the responses. That\u2019s how he determines how many pika there are in a given area. He\u2019s done this for the better part of each summer for years now. Tomoki also studies the gene pools of the various pika populations, for reasons that will be clear momentarily. He gets DNA samples by collecting pika feces \u2014 the pikas themselves, again, being very hard to catch to get their DNA.
Air temperature, of course, vascillates sharply between the bitter cold of Hokkaido\u2019s snowy winters and the relative warmth of summer. Temperatures within the rock spaces, on the other hand, are much steadier. Beneath the snow and between the rocks where the pika live, it remains warmer than outside during the winter chill and cooler than outside during the summer heat.
One reason pika populations may be resilient is the temperature band where they live isn\u2019t shrinking as fast as the \u201Cmacro-climate\u201D around them. Their habitat is fragmenting as temperatures rise, not uniformly retreating up the mountain, and their populations may be fragmenting as wel, not disappearing uniformly.
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In honor of Estes Park's Centennial, the Town of Estes Park unveiled a new downtown scavenger hunt, Pikas in the Park. This activity includes 12 bronze sculptures of pikas, the small mountain-dwelling relatives of rabbits, placed throughout downtown. Use the clues and the numbered map below to find 12 bronze pikas hidden throughout downtown Estes Park. For each pika you find, mark the number inside the magnifying lens by its clue. Find all 12 and claim your official Pika Finder button at the Estes Park Visitor Center!
Pikas in the Park is sponsored by the Town of Estes Park, and made possible by these generous donors: Airbits, Estes Area Lodging Association, Kind Coffee, Frank and Jill Lancaster, Mama Rose's Italian Restaurant, Mueller, Pye &, Associates CPA, Greg and Pamela Muhonen, Poppy's Pizza &, Grill, Rustic Mountain Charm, Craig Soderberg, Village Goldsmith, Visit Estes Park, Whimsical, Inc., and Greg White. The pikas were designed and created by Mike Dwyer sculptures. Additional thanks go to Steve Mitchell, author of Legendary Locals of Estes Park,and Estes Park Historian Laureate Jim Pickering for background information the pikas namesakes, and to Audem Gonzales, who designed the Pika Finder buttons.
American pikas are small, rodent-like mammals. Pikas have short, stout bodies with big, round ears and do not have a visible tail. Pikas reach a size of about seven to eight inches (18 to 20 centimeters) in length.
American pikas are believed to have evolved from Siberian ancestors that crossed the former land bridge between Asia and Alaska. They once lived across North America, but have been retreating upslope over the past 12,000 years. American pikas now live on high-elevation cool mountains west of the Rocky Mountains. They can be found in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico, as well as western Canada. American pikas are found above the tree line in alpine terrain. They live on rock faces, talus (slopes form by rock debris), and cliffs near mountain meadows. Though most pikas in the lower 48 inhabit alpine ecosystems exclusively, some survive at lower altitudes where deep, cool caves are available, such as the ice tubes in California's Lava Beds National Monument. Weasels, hawks, and coyotes can prey on pikas.
Pikas are herbivores. They especially love grasses, weeds, and tall wildflowers that grow in their rocky, high-mountain habitat. In the winter months, fewer grasses and flowers grow in the mountains. To prepare for the lean times, pikas like to save up food during the summer. A pika will collect a pile of extra wildflowers and grasses and lay them out in the sun. The sun's heat dries the plants so they don't get moldy. The plants are stored in the pika's den until winter.
For years the polar bear has been the symbol of the climate change movement. But today the American pika has good grounds to compete with the polar bear for this unwanted honor. American pikas are suffering because climate change has brought higher temperatures to their western mountain homes. Pikas have already disappeared from more than one-third of their previously known habitat in Oregon and Nevada. Despite their dire situation, the American pika is not federally listed under in the Endangered Species Act. Without protection and help, American pikas could be the first species to go extinct due to climate change.
Pikas live in high mountain ecosystems that are cool and moist. The pika has adapted to life in areas that rarely get above freezing and can overheat and die when exposed to temperatures as mild as 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Unlike other mountain species that can move to higher altitudes in warming climates, pikas live so high on the mountain that there is no where for them to go. Trapped at the top, alpine wildlife is vulnerable to several of climate change's damaging effects, including vegetation changes, the invasion of new predators and pests, reduced winter snowpack, and increases in extreme weather events.
American pikas are often heard before they are seen. They make calls and sing to define and protect their territory, alert others to the presence of dangers, and attract mates. The call sounds like the bleat of lamb, but more high-pitched and squeaky.
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For years, researchers have believed that climate change may be imperiling American pikas, which live in mountainous regions and are highly sensitive to warm temperatures. A study released last month further confirms their suspicions: Of 910 once-inhabited sites that researchers looked at, many were empty of the tiny lagomorphs.
-Anna V. Smith
I visited Loveland Pass as part of a training event led by the Colorado Pika Project for aspiring community scientists who want to study the American pika (Ochotona princeps). Pikas are small but charismatic alpine mammals often adored by hikers, but amongst researchers they are known for their tenacity where individuals spend a large portion of their time aggressively guarding their territory against rivals.
We spotted many pikas scampering across the talus (i.e, rocky outcrops) that are synonymous with the Colorado Rocky Mountains and we heard plenty of their loud echoing calls. However, in the face of climate change, attention from scientists and conservationists focuses more on the potential absence of pika from alpine ecosystems.
Pikas do not hibernate in the winter. Instead, they rely heavily upon their high metabolism fueled by the consumption of stashed hay piles. The presence of a dense layer of snow above their shelter in rock crevices also provides valuable insulation that helps maintain the heat that they give off. Early melt-off of snowpack during the late spring, a consequence of climate change, means that pikas lose the insulation above their shelter to get them through cold spring nights some years, making them vulnerable to freezing. Additionally, their ability to maintain a high body temperature to counteract the cold can cause pikas to overheat in the spring and summer months when temperatures increase. Researchers have found that if pikas are exposed to prolonged temperatures above 80º F they can die from overheating. As the climate warms and more days exceed 80º, pikas now face a greater risk of overheating.
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