I want to continue my theme of endangered species and environmental concerns with ‘Bloomin’ Jewels’. I thought about making pikas before, but it didn’t happen. Then I saw another film of them eating flowers among other plant matters and found out that climate change is affecting them quite severely. They can only live in high attitude/cold climate and cannot go higher. So as the plants grow there, that pikas eat and store. They store food for long winter months, do not hibernate and do not migrate.

Pikas are small mammals in the same order as rabbits and hares, Lagomorpha, and there are 30 species. They are all native to cold climate, most species live on rocky mountain sides, a few burrowing species live on open steppe land. Pikas eat wide variety of plants. Forbs, grasses, sedges, shrubs, moss, lichen, twigs, needles, stems and leaves.