GRGR (14): Lemmings

[Jeremy Osner]

pporteous at worley.co.nz wrote:

>
> I believe that it was the makers of a wildlife TV documentary, who herded the
> lemmings towards a cliff and then filmed them falling off - one of those dodgy
> anthropologist "skewings" of data to prove a hypothesis. Was it the BBC, in the
> 60's ?  something like that. Anyway, it was believed by everyone and is now the
> "truth".

I had heard that same story, except the filmer was Disney. Possibly it's an urban
legend?

Jeremy

--
And over the village slipped the days,
passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by,
the months crept on, the wind howled,
and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent,
greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly
down to the sea.

Mikhail Sholokhov
_And Quiet Flows the Don_
http://www.readin.com/books/don/thebook.html