The gestation period of the pika (Ochotona princeps).
A new pika (mammalian genus Ochotona) from southeastern Idaho with notes on near-by subspecies.
Way out in the mountains of the Far West, where Whistler the Marmot and Little Chief the Pika live, is a big cousin of Buster Bear," began Old Mother Nature.
So are all the members of the Rat and Mouse family, the Beaver family, the Porcupine family, the Pocket Gopher family, the Pika family, and the Sewellel family.
Little Chief Hare, called the Pikaor Cony, and Stubtail the Mountain Beaver or Sewellel," replied Peter with great promptness.
It seems reasonable to suppose that in some subterranean cavity the pika has constructed a comfortable nest lined with soft grasses.
To the nature student the pika offers a tempting challenge.
Fortunately its tastes are not critical; thus, although the individual plants are scattered, the pika is able to select a sufficient store from the considerable number of species represented at this altitude.
Working early and late the pika distributes its harvest among the various piles.
The pika bears a superficial facial resemblance to the rabbit, to which it is most nearly related.
It is the pikayou see and this rock slide is his castle.
Depositing the load on this base, the pikascurries away for another bundle.
During this time the pika lives high on the succulent leaves and stems, but during the latter part of the season it carefully harvests enough food to last through the coming winter.
As though realizing that a hard frost would ruin its delightfully fragrant crop, thepika sets furiously to work.
The pika is so small and so weak that in the open he could not possibly dig down below the grizzly bear's ability to dig.
The stems are laid together with fair evenness, and from start to finish the haymaking of the pika is conducted with admirable system and precision.
And that is how Little Chief the Pika learned to make hay while the sun shone in the days of plenty.
The pikas worked a relay system and the weasel abandoned the trail when the fourthpika became the object of the chase.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pika" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
