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At the University of British columbia a robo-bunny has been developed that can mediate its users emotions,

The robo-bunny also has a pulse and can stiffen or relax its ears. But for now, users of the robo-bunny need to be wired up to biometric sensors for the rabbit to sense the user s emotional state

and react. You can t seriously expect kids to be wired up with sensors while they re using this,

a professor of computer science at UBC and the leader of the lab in which the bunny was developed.

and researchers have created previously glowing bunnies frogs and evenâ glow-in-the-dark cats in the name of science.

and pikas eat. They are usually unworthy of a second tasting Dearing said. Mammoth straddles the line between digestible and disgusting.

While many people think rabbits are about the size of a cat some rabbit species such as the jackrabbit can grow to be as big as a small child.

Bunny is just an affectionate name for a rabbit young or adult according to Small Pet Select.

While many rabbit species are populated over the Oryctolagus cuniculus or European rabbit is considered within near threatened range by the IUCN.

The population is currently dropping and in areas such as the Iberian peninsula the European rabbit populations have declined to as little as 5 percent of its 1950 numbers.

The white-tailed jack rabbits in Yellowstone are also becoming extinct. Rabbits can be very crafty and quick.

To get away from a predator a cottontail rabbit will run in a zigzag pattern and reach speeds of up to 18 miles an hour according to National geographic. Their ears can grow to 4 inches (10 cm).

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#These Adorable Fur Balls Survived a Raging Forest fire SACRAMENTO Calif. Johanna Varner thought a devastating forest fire meant the end of her pika research on Oregon's Mount Hood.

Instead she discovered that the pint-size pikas survived the fire providing new insight into their resiliency to environmental change.

Varner is studying pikas in Oregon's Columbia river Gorge where this rabbit relative munches on moss instead of grass and flowers.

She compares these unusual low-elevation pikas with a more typical group living at high elevation on Mount Hood.

Consider a spherical mammal Pikas live in crevices on relatively bare rocky slopes called talus and gather piles of plants to eat during the long alpine winters.

The World's 5 Smallest Mammals Because of their temperature sensitivity pikas are bellwethers of climate change.

Studies have documented that pikas in Nevada and eastern Oregon have moved already to higher-elevation homes as temperatures warm.

because less winter snow means colder winter temperatures snow insulates the pika's homes. The trees and shrubs surrounding the Pinnacle Ridge talus slope were burned 100 percent meaning a high-temperature fire

She assumed all of the pikas were dead. However the year before Varner had cached temperature sensors in the talus boulders.

but inside the crevices where pikas live the heat never exceeded temperatures recorded in the summer days before the fire she reported Thursday (Aug 14) here at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting.

These data suggest the pika could have survived the fire Varner said. If I ever get stuck in a wildfire

Small mammals like pikas can't flee a forest fire like deer and Varner's research is the first evidence that sheltering in place helps the species endure a fire.

Even if some pikas perish enough survive that they can recolonize areas wiped out by the flames.

Pikas'future Forest fires are predicted to grow more frequent in the West in the next 50 years especially in areas where pikas live.

While the Mount Hood pikas were a healthy bunch Varner wonders whether a pika population already stressed by climate change would bounce back as quickly.

The take-home message is that pikas may be more flexible in their habitat than we thought Varner told Live Science.

They make the most of whatever is there. But in places where they are stressed they might not respond the same way.

and she has watched as pikas repopulate the research sites. Varner is also overseeing citizen science projects to keep a close eye on the Oregon pika population.

The most severely burned sites still have fewer pikas than lightly burned talus does. There are early hints that a vegetation threshold may exist Varner said meaning that pikas need a certain number of plants to maintain a population.

I thought my thesis had gone up in flames but it has yielded new insights Varner said.

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) Pika not protected: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has denied endangered-species protection to the American pika (Ochotona princeps.

Campaigners had argued that the small herbivore (pictured) would be threatened by rising temperatures. It would have been only the second mammal other than the polar bear to be afforded such protection explicitly because of climate change.

Federal biologists said that pika, which live in mountainous parts of ten western US states, would be able to migrate

#A roly-poly pika gathers much moss: High-fiber salad bar may help lagomorphs survive climate changein some mountain ranges Earth's warming climate is driving rabbit relatives known as pikas to higher elevations

or wiping them out. But University of Utah biologists discovered that roly-poly pikas living in rockslides near sea level in Oregon can survive hot weather by eating more moss than any other mammal.

Our work shows pikas can eat unusual foods like moss to persist in strange environments says biology professor Denise Dearing senior author of the new study published online today in the February 2014 issue

of Journal of Mammalogy. It suggests that they may be more resistant to climate change than we thought.

By consuming mosses that grow on the rockslides where they live the pikas are released from foraging outside the safety

The study also found the low-elevation pikas build much smaller food caches to survive the winter compared with pikas in typical high-elevation habitat she adds.

Like rabbits and hares pikas produce a fraction of their feces in the form of caecal (pronounced see-cull) pellets

Pikas and rabbits and their gut microbes are the ultimate recycling factory Dearing says. They ingest low-quality food over and over again

Pikas are native to cold alpine climates--often above 8200 feet elevation--in North america Asia and Eastern europe.

Although a few species dig burrows they usually live in rocky areas and crevices near meadows or in talus slopes.

and Oregon and to a lesser extent Colorado--pikas have gone extinct in some mountain ranges and moved to higher elevations in others.

In the gorge--which runs roughly 30 miles east-to-west--these American pikas--Ochotona princeps--live among the rocks on moss-covered talus slopes.

The existence of these low-elevation pikas--which also inhabit the Washington side--has been known

A 2009 study documented these pikas lived in a warmer wetter climate than usual. But until now no one had looked at exactly how they survive.

Monitoring the Pika Salad Barvarner and undergraduates conducted the study on two talus slopes--each about 3. 5 acres--surrounded by a forest of Douglas fir western red cedar and bigleaf maple near the Gorge Trail near Wyeth Ore.

Each site had at least eight resident pikas. They studied the sites in 2011 and 2012 mainly during June through August

when the pikas were most active. The scientists surveyed the abundance of lichens mosses ferns grasses sedges rushes forbs shrubs and trees along the two rockslides.

and counting exactly what species of plants the pikas ate. Each pika was observed at least five times.

The diet analysis included only adult pikas although juveniles from new litters were seen. We counted the numbers of mouthfuls of food they ate

and then collected samples of those foods in the amount we saw them eating per mouthful Varner says.

Overall the biologists watched 220 hours of pika behavior including 1577 individual bouts of foraging.

The food samples were analyzed for how much the pikas ate and for nutrition and fiber content.

and Livesixty percent of the pikas'diet by dry weight came from moss at both sites with the rest from grasses lichens ferns forbs shrubs and some fir needles.

The pikas favored two species: hoary rock moss and big red-stem moss. Varner is unaware that pikas have been seen eating moss elsewhere and certainly not in this quantity.

To our knowledge this study represents the highest degree of voluntary moss consumption reported for a mammalian herbivore in the wild

Analysis of the pikas'caecal pellets showed they contained six times more protein than the moss they ate.

Less snow cover low in the Columbia Gorge--only about 20 days per winter--means the pikas there collect smaller haypiles (about 10 pounds per animal per year by dry weight) for winter than do pikas at high elevations

Yet in both places the haypiles equaled about three ounces per animal per day of annual snowpack also showing the low-elevation pikas didn't need to prepare for winter as much because of the availability of their year-round salad bar.

In cooperation with the Oregon Zoo and local wildlife agencies Varner has helped begin a citizen science program in the Columbia river Gorge so local hikers can help monitor the pikas.

Pikas also exist in some other low-elevations places including in California's Sierra nevada and in lava flows in Idaho and Washington state.

and the highland American pika have signals of positive selection for genes involved in DNA repair and the production of ATPASE.

When domestication occurred the wild ancestor the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) was confined to the Iberian peninsula and southern France.

and prefer prey like jackrabbits that occupy similar habitats said coauthor and USGS ecologist Kristy Howe whose masters thesis research with WCS formed the foundation of this study.

and Maine's only native rabbit after new research based on genetic monitoring has found that in the last decade cottontail populations in northern New england have become more isolated

The endangered New england cottontail is now is at risk of becoming extinct in the region according to NH Agricultural Experiment Station researchers at the University of New hampshire College of Life sciences

and Agriculture who believe that restoring habitats is the key to saving the species. The New england cottontail is a species of great conservation concern in the Northeast.

New england cottontails have been declining for decades. However NHAES researchers have found that in the last decade the New england cottontail population in New hampshire

and Maine has contracted by 50 percent; a decade ago cottontails were found as far north as Cumberland Maine.

The majority of research on New england cottontails has come out of UNH much of it under the leadership of John Litvaitis professor of wildlife ecology who has studied the New england cottontail for three decades.

Kovach's research expands on this knowledge by using DNA analysis to provide new information on the cottontail's status distribution genetic diversity and dispersal ecology.

The greatest threat and cause of the decline of the New england cottontail is the reduction

and fragmentation of their habitat Kovach said. Fragmentation of habitats occurs when the cottontail's habitat is reduced

or eliminated due to the maturing of forests or land development. Habitats also can become fragmented by roads

Cottontails require thicketed habitats which progress from old fields to young forests. Once you have a more mature forest the cottontail habitat is reduced.

A lot of other species rely on these thicket habitats including bobcats birds and reptiles. Many thicket-dependent species are on decline

and the New england cottontail is a representative species for this kind of habitat and its conservation Kovach said.

Kovach explained that for cottontail and most animal populations to be healthy and grow it is important for adult animals to leave the place where they were born

and New hampshire cottontails to travel the large distances between fragmented habitats necessary to maintain gene flow among populations of cottontails Kovach said.

The researchers hope that an improved understanding of how the cottontail moves through the landscape will assist wildlife and land managers in species recovery efforts.

Researchers used genetics to study the changes in New england cottontail populations and their dispersal patterns.

To obtain the DNA of the cottontails in this study researchers collected the fecal pellets of 157 New england cottontails in southern Maine and seacoast New hampshire during the winters of 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.

and likely documented nearly all currently occupied New england cottontail patches in Maine and seacoast New hampshire.

They identified four major genetic clusters of New england cottontails in the region. A major power line connected some of these populations in the recent past--a finding

This research which was funded in part by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station is presented in the article A multistate analysis of gene flow for the New england cottontail an imperiled habitat specialist in a fragmented landscape in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

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