Jul 19, 2021 · Pikas eat yak poop to help them survive winters at high altitudes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in Asia.

Sep 3, 2021 · Yak poop is an abundant, easily digestible food on the Tibetan Plateau for rabbitlike mammals called pikas (shown). Dining on the dung helps pikas survive the hard winter months.

Jul 19, 2021 · Some pikas also resort to unusual rations: yak poop. Camera data from four sites confirmed that pikas regularly brave the cold to forage.

Jul 20, 2021 · New research suggests these small rabbit relatives—which live in mountainous regions in North America and Asia—survive the subzero winters of the Tibetan Plateau by …

Jul 19, 2021 · To survive the harsh winters of their high-altitude home, a fluffball-like animal called the pika becomes strategically lazy — and gorges on yak dung.

May 15, 2021 · Pikas living at high altitudes in Asia eat yak poop to help them survive winter, a new study has found. The small, rabbit-like animals, often compared to Pokémon’s Pikachu …

Jul 27, 2021 · Winter activity was lower at sites where domestic yak (Bos grunniens) densities were higher. Pikas supplement their food intake at these sites by eating yak feces, …

Here, we report on a 13-y study of a species of lagomorph (plateau pika) from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We show pikas suppress their metabolism in winter and exploit a novel food source …

Jul 20, 2021 · Individuals living in areas with high densities of domestic yak populations were also observed eating yak feces, which the authors confirmed via analysis of stomach contents for …

Jul 20, 2021 · Pikas living at high altitudes in Asia eat yak poop to help them survive winter, a new study has found. The small, rabbit-like animals, often compared to Pokémon’s Pikachu …