Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37553158-20191113030504/@comment-43508460-20191122164632

Disney faked the lemming charge into the sea, but he didn't create the myth. I can find several 19th century scientific discussions of lemmings that conclude that the reason many of their little corpses are found at sea isn't suicide, but not understanding that the ocean is much bigger than the lakes and fjords they have no trouble swimming across. Still not sure when the myth originated, but it was out there and busted long before Disney got a hold of it.