For the lowly Arctic lemming, life is cruel. On the wide-open tundra, they are nature’s carryout meal, the Lay’s potato chip of an unforgiving habitat — no predator can eat just one. In a flash before ...

HAVING resided during the summer months for more than twenty years on the plateau from which the migrations of the Norwegian lemming are supposed by many to take their origin, I can speak from ...

WITH all our recent knowledge of the Northern Fauna, and the ample opportunities of the Scandinavian naturalists, the animal in question still seems to have evaded a thorough scrutiny and complete ...

You’ve almost certainly heard the idea, and probably used it as a metaphor: lemmings, those small Arctic rodents, are famous for supposedly committing mass suicide, blindly following one another off ...

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For the lowly Arctic lemming, life is cruel. On the wide-open tundra, they are nature’s carryout meal, the Lay’s potato chip of an unforgiving habitat — no predator can eat just one. In a flash before ...

For the lowly Arctic lemming, life is cruel. On the wide-open tundra, they are nature's meal for many predators. In a flash before death, often the last things a lemming sees are the deadly talons of ...