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Do lemmings committ mass suicide from time to time?
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#19298. Asked by Wonderment.
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Friar Tuck
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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.
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Siskin
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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
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Gnomon
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The mass suicide theory was widely believed in the 19th Century and even appears in one edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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