COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, Ore. (KPTV) – Cascade Pika Watch in partnership with the Oregon Zoo is hitting the trails around the Columbia River Gorge to find pika! With the species being most active from ...

The heroically durable American pika appears to be making a comeback as it faces down such existential challenges as wildfire and climate change. And that’s a whole lot to face down for a creature as ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is looking for help tracking “the Columbia River Gorge’s fluffiest resident,” the zoo announced Tuesday. The Cascades Pika Watch program is returning to the ...

American pikas are small, rabbit-like animals that live in rocky slopes at or above the treeline in the Cascade Mountains and the northeast part of Washington. While hikers might hear a pika’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Zoo is calling on volunteers to help monitor the American pika, one of the Columbia River Gorge's most charming residents, as part of the Cascades Pika Watch program ...

If vast views of sublime scenery don’t lure you to the Columbia River Gorge, how about a little dose of irresistible cuteness? With a dollop of environmental virtue for good measure? The tiny American ...

It’s the American pika, a super cute mammal a little smaller than a guinea pig. Though in the same order as rabbits, they bear no resemblance to their long-eared cousins, Both are herbivores and do ...

People interested in that charismatic creature of the high country, the American pika, and perhaps in advancing pika science now can use a tool that most of us carry in our pocket to help them in that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon Zoo is getting $24,000 to study a tiny mountain mammal that’s native to the Northwest. The grant is to study pikas in the Columbia River Gorge and to see how the Eagle ...

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 ...