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Lemming Population Flux Solved: Mass Suicide Not to Blame
quogmire writes "Australia's ABC reports that biologists from the Universities of Finland and Freiburg (Germany) have finally solved the question of lemming population fluctuations once thought to be caused by lemmings mass-suiciding by plunging off cliffs. 'Lemming populations, they say, surge spectacularly and fall just as quickly, thanks to the combined feasting of four predators: the stoat, arctic fox, snowy owl and a seabird called the long-tailed skua.' The original article (Login required) is published in Science."
well, at least now I know that its just not God pushing the mushroom cloud button!
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because I keep clicking the bomb icon and blowing them up?
Why study Lemmings when you can study Pingus?
The path I walk alone is endlessly long.
30 minutes by bike, 15 by bus.
I thought it was because I should have had one build that bridge across the chasm. I didn't consider that the game had predators as well.
those Disney lemmings didn't commit suicide, they were MURDERED! *gasp*
They're not suicidal, they're just tasty!
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This doesn't concur with the results I got from my private investigations regarding the behaviour of lemmings. I did some massive computer simulations during the 90's, which showed that lemmings are stupid animals which will walk into one direction until they fall off the cliff. Only few of them can use jack-hammers or parachutes, and even that not without explicit order.
*puts hands on head* Oh-no!!!
*POP*