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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Lemming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lemming populations go through rapid growths and subsequent crashes that have achieved an almost legendary status, largely because of the well-known Disney Studios film, White Wilderness, which was produced in 1958 and reappeared on television at regular intervals for many years afterwards.
In fact, the behavior of lemmings is much the same as that of many other rodents which have periodic population booms and then disperse in all directions, seeking the food and shelter that their natural habitat cannot provide.
Myths about lemmings go back many centuries, and in the 16th and 17th centuries there was much speculation in learned circles that lemmings were in fact spontaneously generated by conditions of the air.
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 lemming - HighBeam Encyclopedia
LEMMING [lemming] name for several species of mouselike rodents related to the voles.
The snow, or collard, lemmings, Dicrostonyx, found in the arctic regions of Asia and North America, are pure white in winter and brown, gray, or reddish in summer; this color change is unique among rodents.
The steppe lemmings, members of the genus Lagarus, of S Russia and Mongolia, are properly classified as voles; the North American species of this genus, Lagarus curtatus, is found in the W United States and is known as the sagebrush vole.
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 Lemming @ 216.92.85.60 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lemmings mostly weigh 30 to 112 grams (1–4 oz) and are about 7 to 15 centimetres (2.75 – 6 in) long.
Lemming populations go through rapid growths and subsequent crashes that have entered pop-culture as a supposedly "widespread" phenomenon, largely because of the Walt Disney Pictures film, White Wilderness, which was produced in 1958 and reappeared on television at regular intervals for many years afterwards.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, there was much speculation in learned circles that lemmings were in fact spontaneously generated by conditions of the air.
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 Lemmings - Game: Lemmings (Commodore 64) - OverClocked ReMix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lemmings is an intriguing game in which you help hordes of otherwise mindless rodents More Lemmings is an expansion disk for the original Lemmings,
For those that have ever played Lemmings in any of their earlier Lemmings are cute little characters who need your assistance to escape from captivity.
Lemmings, a game in which the player's job was to save the tiny creatures from This is not to say that Lemmings Paintball!
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