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by SantaFeJoe on Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:37 pm

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This fairly recently discovered species was recently photographed by scientists:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/researche ... 37263.html

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by Tom Reichner on Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:58 pm

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Thanks for posting this, Joe

The article is about the Ili Pika, Ochotona iliensis
wikipedia page for the species: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili_pika

It is awesome that they have once again confirmed a sighting. Pretty darn good photo, too, considering they were scientists simply attempting to procure a photo for documentation.

I wondered why I hadn't heard of this species before. Then I realized that the book I recently acquired, The Little Known Pika, which covered all of the known pika species world-wide - was published in 1978 - 5 years before the Ili Pika was discovered by Weidong Li in China.

Great read - thanks for sharing it.

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by pleverington on Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:10 pm