Despite what you may have learned from watching Disney as a kid, lemmings do not share a mass suicide compact.
OK, technically, in their annual mass migration frenzy, some (on rare occasions) do jump off steep cliffs fully convinced that they will swim to greener pastures. That doesn't always happen in the frigid oceans of northern Finland. But it's determination that is their fatal flaw, not depression.
Learn all about it here and here.
In fact, there are rumors that just maybe some of those lemmings in the Disney film were pushed for cinematic effect. No kidding!
(Leaping Lemmings knit sculpture by Aprill Newman)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Breaking News: Lemmings NOT Suicidal...
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