In 1958, Disney released a wildlife documentary called "White Wilderness." One scene depicts a tiny, brown-furred rodent — a lemming — scuttling about in the Arctic snow. "There is an actual living ...

If you know anything about lemmings, it's probably their reputation for plunging off cliffs in acts of mass suicide. But if the puffy little rodents could talk, they'd tell a different story: that ...

Recently the U.S. Department of State raised eyebrows once again with an internal directive requiring its personnel to follow the crowd. We’ve all heard the phrase, “like lemmings to the sea.” The ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It may or may not surprise you to learn that we have lemmings in Maine. Our ...

As The Corbett Report community notes, lemmings jumping from cliffs is a figment of Walt Disney's imagination, not a real phenomenon. In fact, the filmmakers bought the lemmings from a pet store and ...

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One of my favorite cartoons of all time—I think it was in the New Yorker—shows a stream of little men in stovepipe hats and knee britches hurtling off a cliff. An observer off to one side says to ...