No Googling, although you still have your phone-a-friend lifeline available. I’ll post the answer in the comments later today.
Today’s animal was suggested by reader Eucritta.
No Googling, although you still have your phone-a-friend lifeline available. I’ll post the answer in the comments later today.
Today’s animal was suggested by reader Eucritta.
Is it a picca?
Since Pika is taken is it a Lemming?
You can guess the same thing as someone else has guessed if you like. Not that I’m encouraging you to act like a lemming…
Haha I think lemming would be funny. I keep thinking of shelter workers jumping off cliffs in large numbers. But lemming are more closely related to mice/voles while pika are related to hares. That furryness looks more hare than mouse to me. So it’s probably a pika.
pika
Pika.
ANSWER:
It’s a guinea pig.
Only joking. I just hate that everybody got it right. It’s a pika. When I used to live in Seattle, I would often go hiking in the mountains. The little buggers would come out and scream at me while I was eating my lunch. They are LOUD.
I’m pleasantly surprised everyone got it right! It always takes me a second look with these guys, because my brain tends to identify them as rabbits.
They are loud. I’ve rarely seen them, but back when I was a kid and I spent a lot of time in the mountains with my family, I often heard them whistle.
His name is Fluffy
I knew this one too! Unfortunately I was behind on my feeds so just now saw it. I had never seen one before but last year my wife and I did a hike at Yellowstone and saw dozens of them — they’re SO CUTE. Also, I hear they are a little bit endangered now because global warming is threatening habitat and moving them up the mountains…and they’re running out of space to climb.
I am impressed that you are dedicated enough to be reading feeds from this far back. Gold star.