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6 August 2021 PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF HETEROSPECIFIC COPROPHAGY IN AMERICAN PIKA
P Ross Gorman
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Abstract

An observation of an American Pika collecting Yellow-bellied Marmot scat to add to its winter food cache is reported. This unusual behavior was observed in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA and was documented photographically.

P Ross Gorman "PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF HETEROSPECIFIC COPROPHAGY IN AMERICAN PIKA," Northwestern Naturalist 102(2), 164-165, (6 August 2021). https://doi.org/10.1898/NWN20-31
Received: 9 October 2020; Accepted: 25 October 2020; Published: 6 August 2021
KEYWORDS
American pika
Leporidae
Marmota flaviventris
Ochotona princeps
scat
Wyoming
yellow-bellied marmot
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