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| An American pika |
I've covered some birds and fish now and so I'm going to move into mammal territory - with the pika. There are actually 30 different species of this guy, and they come from the same family as rabbits and hares, but the thing they have in common is that they're all alpine/mountainous creatures, living in crevasses/burrows.
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| Adult and juvenile black-lipped pikas (China). Image credit: David Blank |
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| Another pika, species unknown |
Some people may be wondering whether the pika was inspiration for the Japanese-originated Pokemon, Pikachu. I really have no idea, but there is a similarity there.
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