Disney popularized the myth, but I think it was around before them. I think they wanted to get video of those famous/interesting lemming suicides but the lemmings wouldn't do it, so they coerced them into it.
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#12There should be a list of commonly known facts that people who are new to the internet have to read so they don't think things like this are novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Which among many other things, mentions the Lemming Suicide myth: > Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating. This misconception was popularized by the Disney film White Wilderness, which shot many of the migration scenes (also staged by using multiple shots of different groups of lemmings) on a large, snow-covered turntable in…
Thanks for this list.. you have killed my productivity this afternoon.
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#14Disney popularized the myth, but I think it was around before them. I think they wanted to get video of those famous/interesting lemming suicides but the lemmings wouldn't do it, so they coerced them into it.
Tldr: Disney committed lemming genocide
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#15Wait.. is the game based on this same fictional fact?
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#16An entire genre of adventure game, reduced to simple entertainment. :-) Yet another black mark against Disney's attempts to make "nature more interesting" only to be just making up just so stories.
Adventure game? Always thought of it as a puzzle game.
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#17Wait.. is the game based on this same fictional fact?
Yes, but it existed before the game or Disney were around.
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#18upon reading the whole article, it is mostly true.
"mass dispersal" occurs when the population grows too much and the food runs out, sometimes it can be very directional, and sometimes they will pile up on the shore until they gets too packed and they try to swim across frigid waters.
the Disney mass suicide documentary says this can be observed every 7 - 10 years, and then they over dramatized how it looks
edit: removed blue planet reference, peace!
edit2: alright folks, what is inaccurate or disagreeable about what I wrote? I'm downvoted so far that I can't even post a rebuttal anymore and have zero feedback about how I read the Alaska Government's article incorrectly
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