Lemmings don't jump, Balthensperger said, which may explain why, according to the 1983 report, the crew pushed the lemmings off the cliff. Rather than intentionally killing themselves, biologists ...

"They have never been known to jump off cliffs in suicide ... documentary White Wilderness. In the film, lemmings throw themselves off of a cliff into the Arctic Ocean. The scene was staged ...

First off, the film was made in Alberta ... Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature—and the myth of the cliff-jumping lemmings was already set in stone. [Wiki – Way Back Machine ...

I always assumed that filmmakers herded a bunch of lemmings and forced them to jump off the cliff. I was wrong, the truth is that the lemmings weren’t even jumping into the ocean, and the scene ...

Lemmings, the small burrowing rodents that live in the Arctic regions, are an odd bunch. They look a bit like hamsters, but they are notoriously fierce. (Case in point: a lemming attacking a ...

The truth is that lemmings don't intentionally jump to their deaths ... filmmakers actually threw or pushed the lemmings off the cliff, using editing and tight camera angles to suggest that ...