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In article <19880@netnews.upenn.edu> rowe@pender (Mickey Rowe) writes:
>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?

It was a Disney wild-life documentary.  In fact, the cliff was 
a construction, and the lemmings were tossed over by gaffers.
This was revealed in a recent expose on Disney film-making.  Other
interesting quirks were the various "fight scenes" in making things
like "Ricky the Racoon".  They went through several "Rickys" in
filming these sequences, as the bear kept killing them.

-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz