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pika
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pika
a genus of animals in the family Ochotonidae. Guinea-pig-sized rabbits with short ears found only in rough, high mountain terrain of North America. Called also rock rabbits, mouse hares, calling hares, Ochotona spp.
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An ochotonid is tentatively ruled out because of the large size of this tooth, rather than for zoogeographic reasons (Mead 1987; Mead and Grady 1996), as there are two records of fossil pika from Ontario (Churcher and Dods 1979; Savage 1994).
Pleistocene vertebrates from the pre-late Wisconsinan Mill Creek ... by Seymour, Kevin L. / Michigan Academician
 
 
 
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