Watch a pika channel Queen's Freddie Mercury at Live Aid

Video editor Joe Vevers tweaked footage of the small mammal squeaking at another pika while perched on a rock and overdubbed it with Freddie Mercury’s famous ‘Ay-Oh’ call-and-response interaction at Wembley Stadium in July 1985.

Certain to bring a smile to even the staunchest cynic’s chops, the 45-second clip has been viewed 1.2million times on YouTube and many more on social media.

Watch the clip here:

In case you’re wondering, a pika is a small mammal with short limbs, rounded ears and no external tail, and is closely related to a rabbit. They live on rocky slopes in mountainous areas of North America and Asia.

Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which features a recreation of the band’s performance at Live Aid, has become a box office smash despite being met by a lukewarm response from critics.

A month to the day after its premiere at London’s SSE Arena Wembley, the film has made more than £315million globally.

Accompanying the movie, there is an official Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack, which features the following tracks: 

1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare 0:25
2. Somebody To Love 4:56
3. Doing All Right... revisited (Performed by Smile) 3:17
4. Keep Yourself Alive (Live At The Rainbow) 3:56
5. Killer Queen 2:59
6. Fat Bottomed Girls (Live In Paris) 4:38
7. Bohemian Rhapsody 5:55
8. Now I'm Here (Live At Hammersmith Odeon) 4:26
9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 2:43
10. Love Of My Life (Rock In Rio) 4:29
11. We Will Rock You (Movie Mix) 2:09
12. Another One Bites The Dust 3:35
13. I Want To Break Free 3:43
14. Under Pressure (Performed by Queen & David Bowie) 4:04
15. Who Wants To Live Forever 5:15
16. Bohemian Rhapsody (Live Aid) 2:28
17. Radio Ga Ga (Live Aid) 4:06
18. Ay-Oh (Live Aid) 0:41
19. Hammer To Fall (Live Aid) 4:04
20. We Are The Champions (Live Aid) 3:57
21. Don't Stop Me Now… revisited 3:38
22. The Show Must Go On 4:32

The original pika footage: 

Queen's fabled performance at Live Aid: