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	Norway lemming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norway lemming dwells in tundra and fells, and prefers to live near water.
		The Norway lemming has a dramatic 3-4 year population cycle, in which the species' population periodically rises to unsustainable levels, leading to high mortality, which causes the population to crash again.
		In typical years, the Norway Lemming (which is the one that is said to be the suicidal species) spends the winter in nests under the snow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norway_lemming (499 words)

	Lemming
		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.
		As a grand finale, the captive lemmings were herded over a cliff into a river (in the film, this was the "sea", and the herded lemmings were on a "suicide drive").
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/le/Lemming.html (674 words)

	Lemming - MSN Encarta
		Lemming, mouselike arctic rodent characterized by a small, short body that is about 13 cm (about 5 in) long, with a very short tail.
		The species occurring in North America is the brown, or true, lemming; the flfooted lemming is a variety of the same species.
		The Norway lemming appears in the cultivated fields of Norway and Sweden during the course of the periodic mass migrations for which it is famous.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564834/Lemming.html (273 words)

	Microsoft Encarta
		The flfooted lemming is a variety of the same species.
		When overpopulation of Norway lemmings leads to a scarcity of food and overcrowding of habitat, many thousands of the animals migrate in search of food.
		The Norway lemming is classified as Lemmus Lemmus.
	www.lemming.com /encarta.htm (246 words)

	The Norway Lemming
		The noticable marked norway lemming is active during the day and at night; times of acitvity are alternating with small breaks.
		The Steppe lemmings, members of the genus Lagarus, of southern Russia and Mongolia, are properly classified as voles; the North American species of this genus, Lagarus curtatus, is found in the western United States and is known as the Sagebrush vole.
		Lemmings, family Cricetidae, are rodents that are closely related to voles and meadow mice.
	www.angelfire.com /me/Merethe/norwaylemming.html (1099 words)

	Lemming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lemming (853 words)

	Norway Lemming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Norway lemmings are colourful little animals with patches of fl, tan and reddish-brown fur.
		Norway lemmings live in Norway, Sweden, Finland and extreme northwest Europe, in northern alpine and the open, swampy flatlands of the tundra.
		Although lemmings can swim, they sometimes try to cross bodies of water that are too deep and too wide to swim across (for example, the sea) and so they drown in large numbers, because they can only swim for 15 to 25 minutes before becoming exhausted.
	www.wildinfo.com /facts/Lemming.asp?page=/facts/Lemming.asp (427 words)

	Norway Information
		Norway, officially Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian Kongeriket Norge), constitutional monarchy in northern Europe, occupying the western and northern portions of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
		The population of Norway was estimated at 4,297,436 in 1993.
		Norway is a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy that is hereditary.
	www.otal.umd.edu /SHORE98/bs24/norway.htm (6585 words)

	Nature in Finland — Virtual Finland
		The Norway lemming’s range is limited to the arctic fells and tundra of northern Fennoscandia — where it is found in north-westernmost Russia and northern parts of Finland and Sweden, as well as in Norway.
		The numbers of Norway lemming in northernmost Finland vary greatly from year to year, but during good lemming years these small animals seem to pop up everywhere, especially on migration between their winter and summer feeding grounds.
		Lemming populations can increase during periods when there are relatively few predators; but predator populations will then increase, and consume more lemmings, soon causing a downturn in their numbers.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/nature/nature6.html (548 words)

	lemming - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		LEMMING [lemming] name for several species of mouselike rodents related to the voles.
		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.
		Lemmings are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Cricetidae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-lemming.html (485 words)

	Odin - Flora and fauna of Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Norway's fauna and flora have been strongly influenced by the new incursions, but also by the fact that the climate is the prime factor in determining distribution patterns.
		Norway has perhaps one of Europe's most variable climates, due to its proximity to the Atlantic and to its 2,500 km long coast, along a north-south axis.
		In Norway, as in the rest of Europe, it is the seed ripening that deter-mines the limits of their distribution.
	odin.dep.no /odin/engelsk/norway/environment/032005-990402/index-dok000-b-n-a.html (2888 words)

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		Norway covers an area of 323,895 square kilometers and stretches 1,752 kilometers from Lindesnes (57°59'N) in the south to Kinnarodden (71°08'N) in the north (Gjessing and Ouren 1983, Anonymous 1990, Anonymous 1991).
		Furthermore, the Norway Lemming Lemmus lemmus (L., 1758) is endemic to Fennoscandia.
		The Reindeer of South Norway is to a larger extent a hybrid of the domestic Reindeer and R.
	home.c2i.net /nobi/atlas/english.htm (2429 words)

	Lemming - Search View - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		This phenomenon of mass migration and drowning is relatively infrequent, although population fluctuations occur every three or four years.
		Other lemming species do not migrate in this way.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761564834__1/Lemming.html (315 words)

	Brown Lemming
		Lemmings are the smallest mammals in the high arctic.
		Taiga: The Canadian Boreal Forest:...the smaller mammals are the Boreal Red-backed Vole and the Northern Bog Lemming, 'Synaptomys borealis', a cousin of the famed Brown Lemming whose migrations in...
		Whereas the Norwegian Lemming is Lemmus lemmus, and the Brown Lemming is Lemmus sibiricus.
	specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/B/Brown_Lemming.shtml (1745 words)

	AANS.org \| Library
		Lemmings are fetching little creatures five or six inches long with short legs, small ears, a stump of a tail and long, soft fur.
		What sets the lemming apart from other rodents are their regular fluctuations in population density and their periodic migrations.
		Nevertheless, in the case of the Norway lemming, many of the migrants follow the pack over cliffs and into the sea.
	www.aans.org /library/Article.aspx?ArticleId=10652 (1021 words)

	Steppe Lemming
		Although it is the larger (unrelated) Norway Lemming that indulges in the most dramatic of these journeys, Steppe Lemmings too migrate in similar fashion, but their meanderings are not as noticeable or as famous.
		As with the Norway Lemming, the wild population of the Steppe Lemming expands and contracts with cyclical regularity.
		For a long time the Steppe Lemming has had the doubtful honour of displacing the guinea pig as a traditional laboratory animal and, in retrospect, it is easy to see why laboratory technicians enjoyed a success with this species that was largely denied to private breeders and zoos.
	www.geocities.com /efexotics/steppelemming.html (3687 words)

	Lemmings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The boldly patterned Norway lemming is active day and night, alternating periods of activity with short spells of rest.
		These lemmings start to breed in spring, under the snow, and may produce as many as eight litters of 6 young each throughout the summer.
		Lemmings are fabled for their dramatic population explosions, which occur approximately every three or four years.
	www.expage.com /lemmingssuck (210 words)

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		Lemmings belong in the family of cricetid rats, mice and voles.
		In the summer Norway lemming is lower in the fells, near brooks and in the marshes eating mainly hay, grasses and dwarf shrubs.
		Norway lemmings - like many other small mammals - are important food for many predators (for example for rough-legged buzzard).
	www.oulu.fi /northnature/english/englanti/elaimetsopu.html (295 words)

	Lemmings
		Norway lemming populations fluctuate strongly and may migrate at high densities.
		Collared lemming is the only rodent that turns white pelage in the winter.
		In contrast to Norway lemming, collared lemming do not eat moss but grasses and shrubs.
	www.helsinki.fi /science/metapop/english/Species/Lemmings.htm (101 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If scientists have their timing right, this is a "lemming year" and the mountainous scrublands should be teeming with the small, shy rodents.
		Lemmings breed under the snow in winter, when a female can produce a new litter of four to seven offspring every three weeks.
		He said understanding the lemming phenomenon had repercussions for deeper problems in ecology studies of population density and regulation of populations, but the myths surrounding the lemming had also provided a certain charm.
	www.satanservice.org /coe/general/txt.lemmings (730 words)

	Frederik Carl Lemming: biography
		Lemming taught the violin to the young Norwegian Ole Bull, who is known as one of the greatest of Scandinavian musicians, and Lemming's technique affected Ole Bull's playing for the rest of his life.
		Lemming's Etudes Fantastiques for solo violin, which are virtuoso studies in the style of Paganini, were in use for many years.
		Lemming ended his life in a mental institution close to where he grew up in Denmark, a sad end for one of the greatest true originals of Danish nineteenth century music history.
	www.hebeonline.com /authors/lemming/author/lemmingbio.htm (437 words)

	Great Moments in Science - Lemmings Suicide Myth
		One myth deeply entrenched in our language is that of the "Lemming Suicide Plunge" - where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be dashed to their deaths on the rocks below, or to drown in the raging ocean.
		So lemmings do have their regular wild fluctuations in population - and when the numbers are high, the lemmings do migrate.
		The migration sequence was filmed by placing the lemmings on a spinning turntable that was covered with snow, and then shooting it from many different angles.
	www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s1081903.htm (628 words)

	Collared Lemming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The collared lemming is short and stocky with a very heavy coat year round.
		Pelage varies with the seasons: in summer the coat is light to dark grey with a buffy to reddish brown tone.
		Populations cycles are typical of lemmings: every few years the numbers peak, followed by a "crash" that some observers have described as a mass suicide, although this is doubtful.
	www.avidpets.com /Rodents/n-collared-lemming.htm (546 words)

	Norway Lemming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Norway Lemming looks like a field mouse but mainly lives in the Arctic regions of northern Europe and other Scandinavian countries where it lives off lichens, mosses, and many different types of grasses.
		A strange chapter in the Lemming's history occured in 1532 when there were strange reports of large numbers of lemmings moving towards the sea.
		Today we know that lemmings run away from their original territory to control their population but it's believed they no longer commit suicide.
	www.angelfire.com /ga3/viper/Norwaylemming (178 words)

	Math & Science: Annual Games
		If V is the speed a lemming can swim at, A is the constant angle to the bank the lemming swims at and y*R is the speed of the river then (' notation refers to derivative wrt time).
		If V is the velocity of the lemming, x' its component parallel to the shore, y' its component perpendicular to the shore, and C a constant, and A the angle between the lemming's orientation and the shore:
		The lemmings with optimal strategies are all on the edge of the diffusion front, and must travel perpendicular to the front.
	www.experts-exchange.com /Miscellaneous/Math_Science/Q_20728919.html (3745 words)

	Genus Lemmus or brown lemmings and true lemmings
		Norway Lemming or Lemmus lemmus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern.
		Lemmus sibiricus (Brown Lemming): Narrative Palearctic, Nearctic: Brown lemmings are found in the tundra regions of Siberia and North America.
		While this isn't true (lemmings are apparently smarter than that), humans have a nasty habit of exhibiting the same behavior on a regular basis.
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Rodentia/Muridae/Lemmus (401 words)

	Biological information about Lemmings
		Warning: The list of lemming species presented here will only be displayed correctly if you are using a browser capable of tables.
		It looks more like a Wood Lemming to me, but I am not an expert so I may be wrong.
		Tim R. Nagy wrote that it might be a southern bog lemming.
	www.xeye.org /1995-2000/LemmZoo.html (880 words)

	MavicaNET - True Lemmings (Lemmus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Palearctic, Nearctic: Brown lemmings are found in the tundra regions of Siberia and North America.
		Brown lemmings typically weigh about 50-70 grams, and are about 120mm long.
		Lemmings differ from other rodents in that they are not able to hibernate (e.g.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/fin/28638.html (112 words)

	Student assignment. (requirement for course by Peter Kabai) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We find the lemmings in higher places in south of Norway and middle Sweden to the north and also in the north of Finland and Russia.
		The weasel and the snowmouse is among the biggest enemies of the lemming.
		It is very much dependent on the lemming population cause the lemming is it’s main food source in contrast to the other predators.
	bio.univet.hu /SALVE/Student_essay/rodentia/lemming_Solesmlie.htm (926 words)

	Steppe Lemming
		NATURAL PREDATORS Steppe Lemmings are the staple diet for many of the mammalian and avian predators of the steppe, particularly owls, Rough-legged Buzzards (Buteo lagopus), Corsac Foxes (Vulpes corsac), polecats (Mustela putorius), stoats (Mustela erminea), weasels (Mustela spp.), and gulls (Larus spp.).
		DIET As the Steppe Lemming bears a superficial resemblance to the Russian Dwarf Hamster, there is a temptation to treat it as such, particularly in respect to its diet.
		Steppe Lemmings were first bred (in the laboratory) about 1940 in the former U.S.S.R. From there colonies were established in the early 1960s in Germany and Great Britain for research on such diseases as tularaemia (an acute bacterial infection which causes fevers, chills and inflammation of the lymph nodes), listeriosis and poliomyelitis.
	www.jirds.cwc.net /rag/profiles/stlg.htm (3748 words)

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