Do lemmings actually jump off of cliffs?
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Do these tundra-inhabiting rodents actually jump to their deaths as depicted in a 1958 wildlife documentary?
    • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      In 1532, the geographer Jacob Ziegler of Bavaria proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.

      lol, that’s dumb

      This description was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, …

      well duh, of course people thought that was stupi—

      … who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation.

      oh