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Лемминг: Миф о массовых самоубийствах Have you also heard this entertaining story about suicidal lemmings? How do they gather in huge flocks, climb higher on the rock and cosplay as the star-crossed lover from the song of the King and the Jester? A heartbreaking story, I agree, but if it were true, the entire tundra ecosystem would have collapsed after the first batch of suicide hamsters. After all, a lemming is not just a polar rodent, but an animal on whose shoulders the biodiversity of the entire North rests! A lemming is essentially a live stew on legs around which the entire tundra food chain revolves. Arctic foxes, owls, stoats, skuas - all these guys eat lemmings about as regularly as we eat bread. If the rodent disappears, half of the polar fauna will begin to quietly die of hunger. And tundra rodents multiply in ways that rabbits could never even dream of. In a good year, a mother lemming can give birth to up to 6 litters, each containing 3-4 cubs! During such “harvest” seasons, fierce trash and sodomy begin in the tundra in the spring. Having emerged from under the snow, sexually mature young animals rush around the tundra like crazy: they fight for food, females, migrate anywhere and, of course, replenish the furry army with new recruits. Predators especially rejoice at this devilry. Lemmings are already the main prey of all local predators, but during periods of their invasion there are so many hamsters that you don’t even have to catch them - they fall into their paws themselves! Moreover, the efforts of meat-eaters remain invisible to the rodents themselves - their population is growing exponentially. It would seem that the conquest of the world by hamsters is inevitable, but in the end, a horde of voracious rodents eats up to 70% of the tundra vegetation. As a result, the reincarnated lemmings are punished by all 4 horsemen of the apocalypse for their uncontrolled hedonism. Famine from lack of resources, plague from overpopulation and war for territories and females will wipe out 90-95% of all rodents. So you don’t even have to jump off a cliff. But where did this misconception even come from? The myth about suicidal hamsters came from the writer Arthur Mee. 2 centuries ago he made a mistake by adding unverified information to his book. A documentary about the fauna of the Arctic “White Wasteland” added fuel to the fire, where lemmings jumped from a cliff right in the frame (photo 5). How can you not believe this? In fact, the hamsters were in no hurry to throw themselves off the cliff; the filmmakers themselves threw them there. The film was shot back in 1958 in the USA, and it literally misled half the world. Why the creators decided to hype in such a strange way is unknown... - - - - - We have a huge group, which is 11 years old and there are many zoologists who write tons of text every day from the field in which they are specialists. Due to VK’s failed policy towards authors, all this, unfortunately,