Meet the Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis), a rare animal that has made its home in the Tian Shan mountains of northwestern China. But this impossibly endearing "magic rabbit" (so-dubbed by ...

Most directly, warming can also cause the animals to die from overheating. Protecting the pika as endangered would help protect the species from direct harm and would also require the protection of ...

In their paper, published in 2005 in the journal Oryx, Smith and Wei-Dong, suggested the animal be added to the endangered species list. "We recommend that the Ili pika's Red List status be ...