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Norway Lemmings migrate when the local population becomes too great to sustain the needs of the mouse like creatures. They actually "migrate" to an area with better food supplies.

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Is the lemming migration a myth or fact?

Lemmings do migrate, which is a fact. However, the popular misconception that they commit a mass suicide while migrating is a myth. When lemming populations grow out of control, lemmings will migrate, usually across a river, to another area. Though lemmings can swim, the mass quantities with which they migrate cause most of them to drown while migrating. Lemmings do not do this voluntarily.


The land animals that migrate?

Lemmings, Arctic Hare, Arctic Fox, Caribou


Can Lemmings be found in sea?

Only when they swarm/migrate en masse and run into the ocean.


What is lemming migration?

a lemming migration is when lemmings which are a type of rodent leave where they were living and move somewhere else. they migrate twice a year in spring and Autumn! Lemmings live mostly in the northern hemisphere.


Do you know about the young Lemmings?

They are birds that arctic foxes eat.


How do birds know when to migrate?

they know when to migrate because of the weather and the food decreasing


What is the Lemmings life cycle?

I don't know that's why I'm asking you peeps


Where can you download the lemmings?

Try Lemmings Universe.


Do lemmings live in Antarctica?

No, there are no lemmings in Antarctica.


Do Lemmings really jump off of cliffs to their death?

Yes.... It is a fallacy that lemmings commit mass suicide during migration. They do migrate in large groups when population density becomes too great. Lemmings can swim and will often choose to cross a body of water in search of a new habitat. On occasion, the lemmings are pushed into the sea by the pressure of more lemmings arriviving on the cliff-top or shoreline. Sometimes (particularly in the case of Norwegian lemmings) large migrating groups will reach a cliff overlooking the sea. They will stop until the urge to continue forces them to jump off the cliff and start swimming, sometimes the distance is too far, resulting in exhaustion and subsequent death.


Are lemmings a reptile?

Yes. Lemmings are in the family of mammals known as rodents. The family name is Rodentia.


Are there lemmings in Alberta?

No. You will find lemmings in the tundra, and Alberta is too far south of the tundra to have any lemmings.