Pika

In Bhutan, pikas are native to cold climates of rocky mountainsides above 4000m. It’s a small mammal among a few others that could live at such heights. But what it lacks in size, it makes up in its smartness. Despite the small size, pikas are very smart that they stores food in their burrows to eat during the long cold winter. They also knows how to collect hay and soft twigs in autumn to have their burrows nice and warm in winter. Pikas prefer rocky slopes and graze on a range of plants, mostly grasses, flowers and young stems.

In some of the pictures depicted here, pika is seen munching the leaves of Rheum nobile and Saussurea gossypiphora

Ochotona daurica in Bhutan

Pika in Bhutan

Ochotona daurica

Pika