Darryl,
If you mean a reliable source for the fact that lemmings don't commit
herd suicide by leaping en masse off cliffs and that this was a myth
perpetuated (or perpetrated?) by Disney, this is a well-known fact among
biologists. It drives my son, a zoologist, nuts when people talk about
lemmings jumping off cliffs.
kt
Baird, Darryl wrote:
>
> Hey Rob, do you have a reliable source for this statement? I'm
> fascinated by this "idea" of death by myth fulfillment/perpetuation.
>
> -Darryl B.
>
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> From: RHobbs3@aol.com [mailto:RHobbs3@aol.com]
> Sent: Sat 9/4/2004 3:30 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Statistics (was: Re: 55 minute download
>
> Actually lemmings don't follow the group over the cliff's edge.
> The lemming myth was perpetuated by Walt Disney's "nature" film makers
> who
> forced the rodents their deaths for the film "White Wilderness"
> (1958).
> Occasionally overcrowding will cause some of a large group of lemmings
> to be
> pushed to their deaths in nature, but like most animals lemmings are
> more
> likely to behave in murderous than suicidal behaviors.
>
> Another example of memetic programming in corporate service.
>
> Rob Hobbs
>
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