TKSST: Pikas Prep and Pilfer in the Canadian Rockies

 

TKSST:  Pikas Prep and Pilfer in the Canadian Rockies



 





Small and egg-shaped with round ears, furry pikas are famous for their end-of-summer activity: Haystack-building. The herbivores gather elaborate piles of nutritious wildflowers and grasses, drying the plants in the sun at the mouth of their rock debris dens. They do not hibernate, so they need these well-prepared pantries to sustain them over the cold, harsh winter of the Canadian Rockies.





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