The fate of lemmings: It's murder, not suicide International Herald Tribune | November 1, 2003| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Carol Kaesuk Yoon
International Herald Tribune
11-01-2003
For centuries, people have puzzled over lemmings, the northern rodents whose populations surge and crash so quickly and so regularly that they inspired an enduring myth: that lemmings commit mass suicide when their numbers grow too large, eagerly pitching themselves off cliffs to their deaths in a foamy sea. Scientists debunked that notion decades ago. But they have never been certain what causes the rapid boom-and-bust cycles that gave rise to it. Now, in a study of collared lemmings in Greenland, published on Friday in the journal ...

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