Talk:Pika

message: Prolagus represents its own family Prolagidae (MSW 3rd ed.). There are probably a few more Ochotona species, but I don't go in further detail now. Just have a look in my lists. Ucucha See Mammal Taxonomy 16:10, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification 

message: Everyone I know in the US pronounces it "paikǝ" (if I have my IPA right).--Curtis Clark 15:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Looks like this is where they got the idea for a pikachu.
:That's just what I was thinking--Hibernian 23:57, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's just what I was thinking as well. I'm trying very hard not to vandalize this page and change the picture to Pikachu (don't worry, I'm not going to, but it's tempting). --bī-RŌ 01:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pikachu isn't a pika. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:58, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Apart from the ears and tail, many mammals look like pikas.--Curtis Clark 05:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Besides, Pikachu's name comes from the Japanese words pika pika meaning "to flash" (like electricity), and chū, the word used for a rodent's squeak.  -SaturnYoshi THE VOICES 16:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the creators of Pikachu planned for it to fit both flash and this animal. The original Pikachu artwork is far too similar to this particular animal for it to be a coincidence. The original Pikachu was even more similar than the current one. -- THLCCD 01:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: From personal observation, Japanese puns usually have many layers. It wouldn't surprise me that the creators used both interpreations to make the choice for this name--ZayZayEM 05:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes they are from the same order. Lagomorpha includes two families, the pikas and rabbits. --Belg4mit 22:31, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pikachu 

message: I am suggesting to add this as a link - 
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ochotonidae.html
It is the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's Animal Diversity Web page for the "Family Ochotonidae:pikas"
As far as I can see, they don't sell stuff... Gooblyglob (talk) 23:56, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Submission for External Link

message: The Donald Grayson article is "Mammalian responses to Middle Holocene climatic change in the Great Basin of the western United States" (2000), Journal of Biogeography  27(1), p181-192. He says no such thing as "human activity and global climate change appeared to be pushing the American pika population to ever-higher elevations and thus possibly toward extinction." His conclusion states, in part, "As a result, we cannot as yet draw secure inferences concerning small mammal responses to global warming conditions in the Great Basin from the Homestead Cave faunal assemblages. Nonetheless, those assemblages do provide our first detailed understanding of mammalian reponses to Middle Holocene warmth and aridity in this region."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 171.64.132.97 (talk) 20:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation

message: Does anybody know how long Pikas live and in what countries (if any) they would be illegal to own as pets? 86.14.83.203 (talk) 11:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lifespan and legality as pets? 

message: I find it confusing that the first sentence says "...chinchilla-like animal" since they are not related. Could this be changed to something else?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.253.91.16 (talk) 00:31, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinchilla confusion 

message: Why is the intro paragraph in Spanish? I can read some of it, but I'm not fluent in Spanish (my rabbit-related vocabulary is sorely lacking). English translation requested.--Haseo ATC (talk) 16:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish? 

message: pika are also found in Nepal around tso-rolpa lake which is 4500m above sea level, which might be the first siting in Nepal which i personally conformed of seeing it, after which i searched in google for such animals and never found any materials in such regards.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Musabish (talk • contribs) 12:46, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, pikas may well be found in Nepal. However, the article doesn't say that they aren't, so I don't see a problem. If you have a published reference for the sighting, though, feel free to add it to the article on the Himalayan pika, where it would belong. Anaxial (talk) 20:13, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pika In Nepal 

message: What does ocho- and -tona mean, for Ochotona? 113.190.144.139 (talk) 15:54, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning 

message: Well, I realized that the range map image appears twice in this article. Should we delete one of the two instances, or should we create a new range map, strictly for extant species? ElectricBurst(Electron firings)(Zaps) 21:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range map image 

message: Are pikas featured in any legends or folktales? If yes, include a section on it. Label it "culture". --The only warrah left (talk) 19:09, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Culture 

message: The range map shows O. pusilla (Steppe Pika) as being native to Britain, specifically England, as well as parts of Western Europe, specifically Spain, France, Portugal and Denmark. The U.K. doesn't have any landscape, nor terrain, which would fit the definition of a 'steppe', a terrain type associated with Russia, Eastern Europe and parts of Asia (Mongolia for example). As I don't believe pikas are all that good at swimming, they'd have to have arrived here whilst Britain was still attached to mainland Europe, which, as the climate and environment isn't suitable, obviously they didn't. 
Could the map please be amended…? I'd do it myself if I had the software, but I've only got my iPad. There are NO extant pika species native to the UK.  Margo (talk) 08:49, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that the map shows sites at which fossil pikas (both extant and extinct) have been discovered, not where they live now. According to the source for the map, the British O. pusilla fossil was uncovered in Wales in middle Pleistocene deposits, and would therefore be dated back to a time when Britain was, indeed, still attached to mainland Europe, and would have had a steppe climate. I think we'd need good grounds to suppose that the source is wrong or outdated before amending the map. Although one could well argue that a map of the current distribution of pika species would be more useful for the taxobox. Anaxial (talk) 09:40, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range map 

message: The article states that some members will store dead birds for food, however the paragraph afterwards states them to be herbivores. Epicrangerpig (talk) 19:23, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancy in diet? 

message: I want to add more researched information about the Pika Mouse
 SecondStevoYT (talk) 10:27, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please add the information you want to add under this message then resubmit. Thanks! Bobherry Talk Edits  13:39, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi Protected Edit Request 

message: "North American pikas (O. princeps and O. collaris) are asocial, leading solitary lives outside the breeding season." In reality, these species are very sociable and communicative, they have alarm calls etc Hunu (talk) 16:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asocial pikas? 

message: The Canadian pronunciation of this animal's name is "piːkə" ("PEE-kuh").
I believe at least some British people use this pronunciation as well, since David Suchet pronounced it this way in the documentary series Canada: A Year In The Wild. Vigilante Girl (talk) 09:58, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate Pronunciation 

message: In my opinion, the references from the database should merge with the other references as in my opinion it looks strange having 2 reference tabs within the article. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 20:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  References from the database should merge with the other references 

message: — Assignment last updated by Lrokos (talk) 14:04, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Conservation biology