GRGR (14): Lemmings

[J. Herzog]

>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

It was false, ironically a Disney "True Life Adventure", and the BBC did a
story on it round about the time of the last GRGR, when I first became a
semi-lurker.

J.

(time for mouseketeer role call? yeah, I'm here)