Reader of Entrails: 🧪 My favorite lagomorph is not a rabbit or a hare, but a secret, third type: PIKAS. They are smol, round alpine critters that gather flowers and also shriek in rage and defend territory with vicious murder. 🥹😍 So ofc, I had to help write about their pathology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧪 My favorite lagomorph is not a rabbit or a hare, but a secret, third type: PIKAS. They are smol, round alpine critters that gather flowers and also shriek in rage and defend territory with vicious murder. 🥹😍 So ofc, I had to help write about their pathology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

No lie, the first time I heard a pika scream I had to both watch & listen to it scream like 3 times in perfect unison before I could convince myself *that* sound was coming out of *that* animal… it is absolutely wild…

It is SHOCKING how much rage and volume they can produce despite being an adorably murderous potato.

This is it! 🤣

And you can sign up with the Oregon Zoo to be a citizen scientist & count them in the gorge!

Wooo! Citizen science! What a neat project. They must be tough to count. If they don’t move, they are basically indistinguishable from a rock. Until they scream.

Don't worry, they train you first. Gotta clock that scream correctly!

Omg they’re me

If you are any combination of loud, adorable, and murderously territorial, you may secretly be a pika. Honestly, that sounds rad, I love that for you.

@zeejenks.bsky.social @ketchupcupcake.bsky.social @nachosinabox.xyz can confirm

I also hear they chew a lot. Enough that scientists classified their mastication process as the “Pika-Chew.”

How often do they get Pikachu jokes? 😁

All the time. And you just know that the thing that really grates their cheese isn’t the comparison itself so much as the fact that they would give a left paw to have lightning powers for more murderosity.

Mine too😍😍😍

A wooly chipmunk

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