Human Interactions with Pikas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2016
- Chris Ray, PhD (@pikaresearch), a wildlife biologist and pika researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, talks about how humans and pikas interract in the alpine. The good news is that people hiking on the 14ers generally will not have much impact on these cute critters and there is little to fear from pikas damaging your gear. The effect of climate change, however, is the main way humans are affecting the American pika. Learn more in this video.
Thanks to the Colorado Tourism Office (@Colorado) for funding to help support the development of this alpine animal video series.
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I had a friendship with a pika on top of Jonas Shoulder in Jasper for two years.
He would come right up to me, touch my hand, squeak, then run back a bit. This would go on for a while until he just decided to hang around my leg and hand.
Just hangin'with me...
I'm not sure if it was the thrill, the companionship or the body warmth, but it was cool hanging with my little buddy right up beside me.
Many people think that pika are a type of rodent. They’re not rodents at all. Biologically pika are actually a cousin of the rabbit family. Pika kind of remind of prairie dogs in a way with how they poke their heads above the rocks and make squeaking noises.
they're if prairie dogs ventured forth from their flat homelands and became chunky lil mountaineers
Um.........rabits aren't rodents?
If you know how rabbits move, you see that directly. The loaf position, the hopping, the movement as a whole looks very much rabbit like even the animal itself looks like a big hamster
@@DC-pm9lclagomorphs. They have a very own main species.
Yes, they're Lagomorphs and are beyond adorable.
A combination of a rabbit and a chinchilla
John Bencomo so basically just a bunny with tiny ears
It's just a guinea pig with slightly bigger ears.
@@Mr.Manson actually they are related to bunnys, so probably more on this side
A combination of cuteness and roundness and squeaky fluffin butt lol
Omg so cute
Pika sounds more fitting than Chinchillit or rabbilla anyway.
I think I just came up with a name for a new survival food recipe and a name for a new infectious disease.
Pikas eep a lot and it's really cute
They also steal things
Like what? Like your soggy ass socks and your underwear you wore for 7 days in a row?
Narresh Gabriel calm down lmao
@@Gabrie177 Shut the fuck up!
@@Gabrie177 Stop it, get some help.
Very cute animal. I've seen them in the mountains, they are hard to spot, unless they make a call. Sometimes it looks like they "talk" to each other, when another pika responds to the call.
How could something this cute even exist?!?🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹🐹
I like this scientist's obvious fascination with the Pika. I am also fascinated by them. More like this, please...
pika pika cute pikachu
Hey yeah, I bet that's the Pika which depicts Pickachu 😀
I love pikas. I always wonder how they never became house animals like Guinea pigs.
I think they are very sensitive to high temperatures
That’s a good question. They’re closely related to Rabbits, who have been domesticated as pets for over a century, so you wonder why Pikas can’t be domesticated either?
Because that’s cruel. They are timid and live in rock/shale
@@to.lame.to.function5242 yes it would be…. But then it would be cruel to domesticated cats rabbits dogs hamsters you get the gist
Because these animals have to live in high altitudes where it is colder really warm temperatures can kill them.
cute little thing
That one baby from the back lol! So round :)
@1:03 looking like a Pika rolled up like a Pokeball
Good thing they don't zap people :)
Man if these little critters where also pets I'd probably never leave the room and die from cuteness overload.
0:57 licking hand
May I ask the name of this trail? I would love to go on a hike and get to see Pikas in person!
The video was shot in a research area not open to the public. However, you can see pikas on many 14er trails. They tend to be found in talus fields where there is vegetation nearby. One place I've always seen lots of pikas is on the route from Kite Lake up to Mount Democrat. Lots of good habitat and plenty of pikas over the years.
Just go to a state with high elevation. Go past tree line usually, but you can find them lower. They live in these rock garden areas. They are very hard to see and are very timid
I saw many of them last week on the trail up to Quandary Peak in Colorado. Very cute and abundant.
they're near the top of mount whitney
@@to.lame.to.function5242 Actually, pikas are not timid at all. They are quite territorial, so will come out to warn off humans from their turf. We have had crews working on trails where pikas are frequently around them. They are quick and usually quite busy collecting plants for their hay piles, so can be hard to follow unless you're quick with tracking them.
They are so adorable❤️
At first at 0:58 I thought the pika ate the ant, but it just landed on it's nose :D
They're strict herbivores just like rabbits and pikas are special because they harvest grass and make hay to save for winter.
Chris Ray, is the Dr. Jane Goodall of the Pikas 💕🥰
Fond memories of BCNA pika course field trip to Brainerd Lake area with Chris Ray and the late Joyce Gellhorn.
The real pikachu
1/2 rabbit 1/2 hamster 🐹💖Pika yem yem it calls
Why is this in my reccomended? Why do I like it so much?!
My dog loves pikas. He hasn’t been able to play with one yet but he keeps trying
Where do you live in?
CHRIS! Hi, this is Carol ("Speedwell"). I didn't find this video till today. I will share it far and wide.
Pikas are very cute
SO CUTE!!! ;D
Don't listen to this lady about them being non threatening. I was electrocuted by a yellowish one on a trail some time ago.
shouldve brought some repel u amateur
I could've sworn I saw one of these little guys (or gals) running across a street in my city. But, I'm on the east coast (of the U.S.) and they are on the west coast. This was a few years ago. I saw one running across the yard next door to my house, maybe the same one as it was the same year and it wasn't that far from where I saw it originally, and I haven't seen one since. No long ears, so I wasn't confusing a rabbit with one, and no long tail so it wasn't a squirrel. It was about the size of the animal in the video, same body shape, same ears and it was tan in color and ran the same way. But this isn't their habitat (where I live), so I wonder if that was indeed what I saw. I don't know any other animal that looks like that. Maybe one inadvertently hitched a ride on a truck or something or someone had it illegally as a pet? ??? Don't know how one could've gotten here, but I swear that looks like what I saw. A pika was immediately what I thought of when I saw it.
So, what I learned is if you walk down the right trail, a pika will run up and scream get off my lawn at you.
awwww....i'm dying. so cute...!
Awesome
Is this the inspiration behind Pikachu?
Pika pika! Chuuuuuuu!🐹
Where from you and where is this place
Would it be intrusive to leave them salt blocks like we do for white tail deer in the United States?
Nah, as long as you're not actively handing it to them its fine. toss it somewhere theyll find it and its gucci.
Is this in the USA?
Yes
but can they force a lightning?
On that picture where pika's back and montains it's gorgeous nature, sad that humans destroy all of it when they will need more territory 😔.
Is it a real life pikachu pokemon
Actually, it appears as though the Pokemon pikachu is modeled after a different species that exists in China.
Pyka Chew
A Pika huh? Sounds familiar with one that has jaundice fur
I think you lost a lot of people with "jaundice" lol. But I got it, so a *like* for u
@@jasonvoorhees895 You really don't get the reference do you?
@@dillonhall7514 Well, if I don't I'll look like a real fool, huh? The Pika (chu) with jaundice (yellow) fur? If I got it wrong, feel free to ridicule. I can take it. 😂
@@jasonvoorhees895 By the way, 2 days from now, it's your day, and the release of the New Black Ops game
@@jasonvoorhees895 So yeah, it reminds me of the Jaundice Rat that hangs out with a forever 10 year old named after his father's ashes
This lady reminds me of Vasquez from Aliens (1986).
we as humans do the same thing if not more to other animals... so like we're also not as cuddly as we look
the wild hamster
Can we domesticate a few pikas if they're endangered by the climate? They're so cute!
Jannet not really, you have to keep them at a year round temperature below 75 Fahrenheit. They can die in 6 hours above that temperature. On top of that they would probably be extremely lonely and stir crazy
@@warrentowe aren't they solidarity animals that only come to mate? That's not too different from hamsters. If they are able to live indoors, we can regulate the temperature!
@@milk8928 I'm not sure about the solidarity part, my only experience with them was in the Rockies when I had several investigating me up close while I was resting. It did seem like there was some community aspect going on though based on the amount of them I saw. The real problem with keeping them as pets though is that most people flat out aren't responsible enough to keep such a fragile animal. You would probably take great care of one, it's everyone else we should worry about, and if we're keeping them because they are endangered, that means we need to breed them, and who knows what confinement in a house would do to their breeding, there are several animals that refuse to breed in captivity, like cheetahs and pandas
@@milk8928 Leave them in nature where they have space fresh air freedom and sun. Animals are not our playthings. Most small domesticated animals have horrible lives even when the humans think they're taking good care.
@@aryastark3148 if they are endagered...
I generally dislike rodents, but I make an exception for pikas. The fact that they make do in places where few other critters make their homes has something to do with it I think.
They seem neither malicious, nor frightful. They seem observant, but not like a scaredy cat.
Most people will never see one in RL. It has been a rare event for me, but I'm glad to know where to find them.
@@sqrt2295 Cool. That's good to know. I actually like them better than bunnies. (Except if I'm really hungry ;)
They are one of the favorite things I look for when I hike in their kind of habitat.
Pika...
CHU!!!!
Don't they bite? I saw it getting too close and linking the lady's fingers...it could bite her
Well, anything with a mouth can bite. She did mention their teeth are weaker and they're more interested in the salt in your sweat, so I'd imagine they're more likely to lick than bite, and even if they bite it's probably not as bad as something like a rat.
No they don't unless they feel threatened. They just want the salt
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Paika? It’s Pee-ka!
Incorrect. In the North American Rockies, where the American Pika is located, it is pronounced Paika. These animals have been around a lot longer than the Pokemon franchise, which seems to pronounce them Pee-ka. That does not make "your" pronunciation correct. Stop trying to "correct" the correct pronunciation.
they are better than rabbits
Pikachu lol
rabbit mouse
pika ovisa
Pandas eat these 💀
You won't find a panda in North America outside a zoo, so no threat to these pika.
Weak to Rock and ground types
Chee cheee cheee 😘😘
It's called peeeeka, eeee, peeee-ka, not pie-ka
This is the American pika (Ochotona princeps), which is located in the American West and portions of the Canadian Rockies. It is pronounced PY-ka. This is a different animal from Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis) from northwestern China, which might be pronounced differently.
Anthropogenic corridors = grownups making rock piles. This girl had way too much classroom time.
Climate change yes, I heard that if they get over 80°,
they'll die.😢
Climate Change is killing Pikas?
Clearly it's time for a New World Order!