Climate Change in California Causes Pikas To Suffer Largest Local Extinction Yet
They ’re perchance the cutest mammals in the whole of North America , but sadly a recent study has reported the largest local quenching of pika ever record in modern times . The researchers ' determination , published in the journalPLOS One , revealed that in a known pika habitat , a 165 - square - kilometer ( 64 square Admiralty mile ) region locate in California ’s northern Sierra Nevada mountains , the pikas have disappear ....