This is true.  Lemmings don't migrate off cliffs, but Disney is very
insistent that it's true (cf. an episode of _DuckTales from the
mid-eighties).  In reality, thjis is when they crowd so much that some
accidentally fall off the cliffs.  They don't mass migrate off cliffs
intentionally, nor is this instinctual programming, as Disney would like
you to believe.

Scott


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Lang Thompson wrote:

> >constructed.  The part I remember is the bit on nature documentaries in
> >which the footage of an animal is inverted to have it running the opposite
> >direction in a "chase" with another animal filmed at an entirely different
> >location. There was a discussion of sound effects (e.g. crumpling 35mm film
>
>
> On a tangential note:  I've long heard that for one of Disney's nature docs
> during the 50s they were having trouble filming lemmings flinging
> themselves over a cliff (which they don't do too often or quite en masse,
> otherwise there'd be no more lemmings).  As a result, the filmmakers
> supposedly threw some off the cliff themselves to film.  Does anybody know
> a source for this info or is it an anti-Disney urban legend?
>
> LT
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