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From: ccopjss@cc.brunel.ac.uk (John Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Suicidal lemmings? (was Re: War and Peace and Chimpanzees)
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Date: 7 Feb 90 16:14:01 GMT
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In article <19880@netnews.upenn.edu> rowe@pender (Mickey Rowe) writes:
>Although it is true that lemmings perform strange mass migrations, I
>thought the mass suicide idea had been abandoned.  I remember hearing
>a rumor once that some people making a documentary meant to show this
>occurrence got tired of waiting for it to happen, and filmed a bunch
>of lemmings jumping off of a cliff (but not showing the people herding
>them over the edge :(.  Do biologists still believe that there are
>naturally occurring conditions under which lemming will do this?
>
 That was no rumor that was  fact. It was not a "scientific" documentry
but one of Disney's more disgraceful works of entertainment.

 I believe they also used a species of lemming that do not go in for mass
migration as well, just to make a complete cock up of it.

It was not their only fact bending film either.


J.S.