MORNING SENTINEL • December 8, 2021
In Maine, we have the northern bog lemming and southern bog lemming. The northern bog lemming, which is on Maine’s Endangered & Threatened Wildlife list, has been seen rarely in Baxter State Park and the western part of the state. The southern bog lemming lives in the eastern half of the continental range, and farther south into the Midwest. This thing about lemmings jumping off cliffs during migrations is made up. They don’t even migrate. In the 1950s, a Disney film crew in Canada (where there are no lemmings) apparently bought about 20 lemmings from some Inuit kids, set up their cameras to get tight shots of a low cliff overlooking a river, and flung the lemmings off the cliff. Then they made up a story about migrating lemmings throwing themselves en masse off cliffs. The Disney crew deliberately created and spread a public lie. Makes you wonder what’s going to happen when the people who believe the recent lies reach the natural barrier of reality, and start jumping. ~ Dana Wilde