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Ili Pika: Unbelievably Cute Mammal With Teddy Bear Face Rediscovered (Video)
More than 20 years after its discovery, the rare Ili pika was spotted in the mountains of Xingiang northwestern China. The creature has a face resembling that of a teddy bear, it may just be the most adorable thing that you’ve ever seen. According to The Cosmos News:
…this little guy apparently doesn’t want to be found. Even the first time an Ili pika was discovered in 1983 it was by accident. And since then, sightings have been few and far between. Only 29 live individuals have been spotted in total, leaving scientists to guess about the animal’s ecology and behavior.
So when lead investigator Weidong Li – who originally found the species – and his colleagues at the Xinjiang Institute for Ecology and Geography rediscovered the pika in 2014, needless to say they were excited.
“They found it hiding behind a rock, and they realized they had found the pika,” Tatsuya Shin, a naturalist in China who works with the pika’s discoverers, told National Geographic.
