- and
other vegetation, twigs,
lichens and mosses. Some po****tions make "
haypiles" of
dried gr****es in
their burrows to help see them
through the winter...
- of foraging; they
directly consume food (feeding) or they
cache food in
haypiles to use for a food
source in the
winter (haying). They feed
throughout the...
- feed on all
sorts of
plant material. As they do not hibernate, they make "
haypiles" of
dried vegetation which they
collect and
carry back to
their homes to...
- time in the
summer collecting vegetation that is
stored under rocks ("
haypiles") as a
supply of food for the winter. Some
individuals have been observed...
-
drastically disturbed lands (1978): 23-44. Dearing, M. Denise. "The
function of
haypiles of
pikas (Ochotona princeps)."
Journal of
Mammalogy 78.4 (1997): 1156-1163...
- semi-fossorial. They
differ from many
other pika
species by
forming communal winter haypiles.
During summer they
graze on
monocot gr****es. In late
summer and early...
-
abundance of
plant species found in the
Turuchan pika
habitat and the pika's
haypiles. The pika was
found to be
selective in its food collection, and due to...
- elevations,
usually from
about 2,800 to 4,100 meters. This
species constructs haypiles and is a
generalized herbivore. It
primarily feeds on gr****es and herbs...
-
northwestern Yunnan. It is a
generalist herbivore, and is
known to
construct haypiles. It is
rated as a
species of least concern by the International
Union for...
-
plant stems,
which it
gathers during the
summer to
create haypiles for use in winter.
These haypiles were
estimated by I.V.
Travina in 1984 to be as much as...
