🚀 go-pugleaf

First, thanks to Krista for actually doing some research and not just
posting opinions and half-remembered fragments of information (like I
usually do :)

There was something that she said, however, that I was under the
impression was not considered true any more.

In article <12994@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> kja@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (krista.j.anderson) writes:

>There are certain mechanisms I've heard of that take effect under
>crowded conditions.  Lemmings go nuts and run into the sea in
>their panic. 

>-- 
>Krista A.
>HONOR Our Neighbors' Original Rights!

Although it is true that lemmings perform strange mass migrations, I
thought the mass suicide idea had been abandoned.  I remember hearing
a rumor once that some people making a documentary meant to show this
occurrence got tired of waiting for it to happen, and filmed a bunch
of lemmings jumping off of a cliff (but not showing the people herding
them over the edge :(.  Do biologists still believe that there are
naturally occurring conditions under which lemming will do this?

Mickey Rowe    (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)