Contrary to popular myth lemmings do not commit mass suicide by flinging themselves off cliffs into the sea. Lemmings do migrate from one area to another when their population exceeds the food supply and it is true that during the migration, they swim across rivers and some of them drown.
This may have been the origin of the suicide myth.
The most famous propagation of the cliff myth occurred in a 1958 movie titled White Wilderness. Contrary to what the makers portrayed in the final cut the lemmings they filmed were not “suicidal” lemmings jumping into the sea, they were actually tossed over a cliff by some of the movie’s producers in the name of good TV
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