![]() ![]() We are also partial to the name, World War IV. In fact, the word "lemming" comes from the Norwegian "lemmus" which means destruction.Īre there any up-and-coming death metal bands in our reader-base? Feel free to use the name. Lemmings can be fierce little buggers, bearing their teeth when approached and decimating entire sections of countryside of vegetation. And it is true that Norwegian lemmings would suddenly appear in huge numbers every few years before suddenly they’d apparently be wiped out to near extinction before the cycle would repeat. As The Corbett Report community notes, lemmings jumping from cliffs is a figment of Walt Disneys imagination, not a real phenomenon. They might look cute, but they do not have a reputation for cuddliness. The legend goes that huge swarms of the hamster-like creatures commit mass suicide, either through said cliff jumping or from careering straight into the sea. ![]() They are often be so focused on moving forward in a frenzied rate, that they can plunge straight off of embankments, as seen in this video. Instead, overpopulation and density triggers a migration reaction in the little rodents, causing a frantic and single-minded migration across long distances in search of greener pastures. If you know anything about lemmings, its probably their reputation for plunging off cliffs in acts of mass suicide. While they sometimes do fall to their deaths, they are not consciously committing suicide. scene supposedly showing lemmings committing suicide, jumping off a cliff to a watery. One popular myth about lemmings is that they react to overpopulation by leaping off of cliffs to their death. As YouTube proliferates, there are more amateur videos of animals. There was also a 1991 video game called Lemmings where the object was to prevent the lemmings from marching off cliffs. Though the little rodents (Norway lemmings, Lemus lemus) have not yet begun swarming in a locust-like frenzy, they have been turning up all over Lapland, including drowned in the nets of salmon fishermen, clinging to the oar of a rower and attached to a woman's ankle as it bit her. Northern Finland is experiencing its largest lemming migration in 20 years, according to t his article in Helsingin Sanomat's "International Edition" (we never miss an issue!). ![]()
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