**Global Warming Driving Pika Losses - ENS - 2/25/2003 http://ens-news.com/ens/feb2003/2003-02-25-06.asp
The pika - a small mammal that makes its home on the talus slopes of western mountains in North America - may be one of the first animals to fall victim to global warming, new research suggests. A study published this month shows that global warming may have contributed to local extinctions of American pika populations in the Great Basin area, between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains.
