Pika Making Hay (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Pika Making Hay

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Pikas spend the summer gathering grasses and wildflowers to store in "haypiles" for winter subsistence. When summer temperatures are too high, they are forced to stay underground.

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Photo by Chris Ray

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