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    Do lemmings committ mass suicide from time to time?

    Question #19298. Asked by Wonderment. (May 22 02 2:26 AM)


    Son of The Household Cavalry

    		I thought it was impossible to commit suicide more than once.
    The story of them commiting mass suicide is a myth according to http://www.snopes2.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm

    May 22 02, 5:52 AM
    Friar Tuck

    		I think Disney has a lot to answer for as it appears that it was his company that fueled the rumour.
    http://drbeetle.homestead.com/lemming.html

    Shock, horror, I bet now we will find that the elephant didn't really fly.

    May 22 02, 5:58 AM
    Siskin

    		Natural selection favours individuals that leave as many high-quality offspring as possible. A creature that kills itself before it reproduces leaves no descendants, so the genes for this behaviour die out with the carrier. Mass migration carried out by some animals, including the lemming and wildebeest, may lead to accidental deaths but have nothing to do with suicide.
    http://www.discover.com/ask/main59.html

    May 22 02, 11:00 AM
    Gnomon

    		The mass suicide theory was widely believed in the 19th Century and even appears in one edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

    May 27 02, 11:58 AM

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