Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
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Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
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#2This is covered in the 99% Invisible podcast episode 256 Sounds Natural - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sounds-natural/
I found this entire episode fascinating, especially the part about Elephant footsteps being nearly silent in the real world.
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#3There 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.
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#4I'm glad we had the myth for a bit, if only for the game.
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#5There 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 a studio. Photographers later pushed the lemmings off a cliff.[234] The misconception itself is much older, dating back to at least the late 19th century.
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#6An 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.
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#7Terriers stay small because they're given whiskey as pups and the way to catch a bird is to throw salt on its tail are two other childhood facts that I find hard to completely give up.
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#8There's a great short story by Arthur C. Clarke about lemmings, but he does admit in a later foreword that the premise is actually a myth.
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#9Terriers stay small because they're given whiskey as pups and the way to catch a bird is to throw salt on its tail are two other childhood facts that I find hard to completely give up.
The second is more a matter of degree than principle.
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#10"White Wilderness" snippet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM