American pika

Warning its neighbours of danger - in the form of a passing raven - an American Pika calls out on a warm summer in British Columbia’s Cascade Mountains. Though decidedly rodent-like, Pikas are actually more closely related to rabbits and hares, with which they belong to the same family: Lagomorpha. Pikas can be found where talus slopes adjoin subalpine meadows. Here they den in the labyrinth of spaces between rocks; stockpiling impressive quantities of grasses and forbs to sustain them through
the winter months, as they live beneath metres of snow and ice.

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