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- Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? | Britannica
But there is one myth that has held on tenaciously: Every few years, herds of lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off seaside cliffs Instinct, it is said, drives them to kill themselves whenever their population becomes unsustainably large
- Lemmings Jumping Off Cliffs En Masse Is a Myth - HowStuffWorks
Lemmings do not commit suicide by jumping off cliffs en masse; that's a myth popularized by a 1958 Disney film Lemmings are a keystone species in Arctic ecosystems, impacting biodiversity through population cycling
- Did Disney Fake Lemming Suicide for the Nature Documentary . . .
What the audience then sees is what appears to be a horde of lemmings entering the Arctic sea by jumping off cliffs and scampering across rock-covered beaches to enter the water from the
- Lemming Migration and the Mass Suicide Myth - Biology Insights
The popular belief that lemmings commit mass suicide by leaping off cliffs is a powerful but inaccurate myth This misconception was cemented by the 1958 Disney documentary, “White Wilderness,” which depicted a large group of lemmings plunging into the sea as natural behavior
- Do lemmings actually jump off of cliffs? - Live Science
In a turn of events, the film shows large numbers of lemmings falling down a cliff The survivors swim out into the Arctic Ocean, where they eventually die, according to the narrator
- Do Lemmings Really Run Off Cliffs to Their Death? - Mental Floss
It turns out that there is no proof that an assemblage of wild lemmings would actually drive themselves off of a cliff at all, but rather the myth was perpetuated by a 1958 Disney documentary
- Lemmings Do Not Explode Or Throw Themselves Off Cliffs
The strangest myth—and the one that makes calling another person "lemming" an insult — is the idea that lemmings will mindlessly commit suicide by jumping off a cliff
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