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No lemmings are found natively where the documentary was filmed, becauseĢ. However, in a 1982 CBC investigation revealed thatġ.
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This famously successful film won an academy award and is almost solely responsible for the creation of the suicidal lemming belief. A scene in the film ( click here to watch it) shows lemmings hurling themselves off of a cliff into the sea, seemingly drawn by some unknown force. In 1958 however, Disney reignited the mystery around lemmings with their documentary White Wilderness. It wasn’t until the 1700’s that Carl Linnaeus proved lemmings had a natural origin. A 1530 geographer, Zeigler of Strasbourg, theorizing that lemmings literally fell out of the sky and into existence during stormy weather, a theory he picked up from Alaskan native peoples the Yupik and Iñupiat. Lemmings have often been the subject of bizarre beliefs. Lemmings do not jump to their doom off of cliffs. You’ve likely heard phrases like ‘don’t be a lemming’, or your run of the mill internet troll scream-typing about how we’re all following our governments ‘like lemmings, over the cliff to our doom!’ What you might not know though is that the idea of the suicidal lemmings is a completely fabricated one.
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