redOrbit: A hamster-sized, fur ball of a creature with short legs, known as the American pika, makes its home in high mountain slopes. However, as climate change causes warming, the tiny pika is forced to scuttle a little farther upslope to seek cooler dwellings, the Associated Press accounted. The trouble is, in some places they have run out of slope to escape to, making it quite difficult for the pika to endure. Conservationists are working hard to grant the pika the first species in …