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This comic, which was inspired by a 1953 American Mercury article, showed massive numbers of lemmings jumping over Norwegian cliffs. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Lemmings also appear in Arthur C. Clarke 's 1953 short story " The Possessed ", where their suicidal urges are attributed to the lingering consciousness of an alien group mind, which had inhabited ...
White Wilderness contains a now-infamous scene that supposedly depicts a mass lemming migration, ending with hundreds leaping into the Arctic Ocean.The narrator of the film states that the lemmings are likely not committing suicide, but rather are in the course of migrating, and upon encountering a body of water are attempting to cross it.
[41] [42] Perhaps one of the most influential factors in this misconception was the 1958 Academy Award-winning Disney film White Wilderness, which showed staged footage of lemmings jumping off a cliff during reproduction. [43]
Someone somewhere threw some pronoun lemmings off a proverbial cliff and the left-wing world bought the lie and decided to go with it. The use of gender-neutral terms and preferred pronouns is ...
The Canadian lemming was formerly thought to be a subspecies of the Siberian brown lemming (Lemmus sibiricus), but those were split into two distinct species. They were still considered the same species as the Beringian lemming ( Lemmus nigripes ); the combined species was named the North American brown lemming with the scientific name L ...
uspn 07:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC): Well, a lot of them are not really jumping, they're just being pushed off the cliff by the mass of lemmings approaching the cliff. And even when they hit the water, they just start swimming, as they have done previously on their journey to cross rivers and lakes.
Maine also historically had a nesting population of golden eagles, though today it is only part of their winter range. Other common species include the common nighthawk , whip-poor-will , chimney swift , black-capped chickadee , indigo bunting , scarlet tanager , American goldfinch , tufted titmouse and the mourning dove .
@Dom said, "Fifty-foot cliff jumping for first swim is wild!" @KateDogg4 wondered, "How do they get out of the water?" I agree with @Aaron Clay who said, "Penguins belly flopping is the cutest ...