Given Jon Hall’s new interest in snowy owls: ornithologist Joe Smith on the lemmings behind the snowy owl invasion. Check out the lemmings lining the nest…
Lemmings & Snowy Owls
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ha ha … I will say no more about the whole Owlgate controversy. It was a moment of weakness on my part 🙂 Great post Matt – I often wondered where this idea had come from. So did Disney stage the footage to fit the myth, or did this start the myth?
The myth of lemmings jumping over cliffs has been around for centuries, but Disney popularized it and brought it to the masses!