Even though the legend of lemming suicide goes back many years before White Wilderness, there’s no empirical evidence that such a thing has ever happened in the world God made. The one thing we all know about lemmings turns out not to be true.
After all, what are your chances of actually having everything set up in the right place and the right time when the lemmings decide to commit mass suicide? In the nature documentary-making business, a certain amount of trickery is accepted. That’s a lake or river that the lemmings are swimming in. Also, besides not having any lemmings, Alberta doesn’t have any oceans. The filmmakers used camera tricks (and a turntable) to give the impression that there were thousands of lemmings.
The lemmings in the video were brought from elsewhere, and there were only a few dozen of them. This sequence was filmed in Alberta, Canada, which has no lemmings. Those lemmings are going off the cliff because film crew members are throwing them off. There’s a problem with this footage, however: it is completely fake.
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