Someone who blindly follows a crowd is called a lemming. Lemmings have brown and black, long, soft fur. They feed mostly on mosses and grasses. Over the past century, the myth has been invoked to express modern anxieties about how individuality could be submerged by mass phenomena. “Don’t be a lemming” means “Don’t just follow the crowd.” Lemmings are quite rounded in shape, with a very short tail, a stubby, hairy snout, short legs, and small ears. They have a flattened claw on their front feet to dig in the snow. Most lemmings are solitary, meeting only to mate. When gathered in groups, it’s called a slice of lemmings. It means they blindly follow others without thinking. Where does the word come from? It’s derived from Old English “gleam” or “sparkle.”
What is the lemming syndrome?
What is the Lemming Syndrome? The “Lemming Syndrome” is an innate psychological phenomenon, a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. Lemmings are small rodents that have been known to follow each other as they charge to their deaths off the edge of cliffs. This is actually an unsubstantiated myth about Lemmings, but they’ve become a metaphor for people who go along unquestioningly with a group with potentially dangerous consequences.
The Lemming Syndrome refers to the lemming, who, when prodded, starts a migration to certain doom. In this case, those who vote against themselves when they vote. We discuss what is going on in Washington DC as usual.
This is where “lemming syndrome” comes in. Lemmings are small mammals that travel in huge groups, and notoriously follow the lemming before them faithfully. Droves of these animals have been known to pitch over cliffsides or end up in equally dramatic situations. While it’s an extreme example, the principle is similar.
After the 9/11 attacks, the hysteria for retaliation led the American people into the abyss of unending war, lost of civil liberties, moral debacle, monstrous debt and economic chaos. Bin Laden couldn’t dream of a biggest success. The 2001 September attack was the closing end of a circle opened with another 9/11: that of the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile, orchestrated and funded by the Nixon/Kissinger team, which started a string of military dictatorships in Latin America aimed to put an end to the nationalist social reforms in the region and to impose a neoliberal economy.
The political climate varies in every general election. In such a scenario, will Lemming syndrome work? It is a syndrome in which people tend to follow the behaviours and actions of the masses without using any discretion of their own.
Can lemmings be pets?
Lemmings are interesting pets. While rare in the Americas, they are popular in Europe. However, unlike other rodents, lemmings need a specific diet to thrive. Arctic foxes, brown bears and snowy owls eat lemmings. Polar bears sometimes eat Arctic foxes when seals are scarce.
Lemmings are popular pets in Europe. However, unlike other rodents, lemmings need a specific diet to thrive. In addition, they have other needs to safeguard their health. Lemmings are aggressive. Their strong teeth can be dangerous weapons against small predators like weasels. Overall lemmings need more care than hamsters or other common pets. They are exotic pets requiring more consideration than hamsters or gerbils.
Lemmings are a kind of short tailed vole favoring tundra and grasslands. Three kinds are in Alaska, including the collared lemming, the only rodent that turns white in winter. Common predators are foxes, weasels, owls and ravens. Fall is opportune for predators as plant food is scarce and there is no snow cover.
Why are lemmings aggressive?
The behavior and appearance of the lemmings are clearly different from other rodent species. Many other rodents are inconspicuously coloured so that they can camouflage into their surrounding, keeping them safe from predators, and also they flee when faced with a threat. But the lemming is conspicuously coloured and is very aggressive towards threats. The lemmings do not hibernate in the winter and stay active year round.
Lemming Diet and Reproduction. The Norway lemming and brown lemming are two of the few vertebrates which reproduce so quickly that their population fluctuations are chaotic, rather than following linear growth to a carrying capacity or regular oscillations. Why lemming populations fluctuate with such great variance roughly every four years, before numbers drop to near extinction, is not known.
Lemmings are active both day and night and tend to follow the same routes from nests to feeding spots until their living area becomes a network of trails a couple of inches below the snow or land surface. The conspicuous, bold colors of the Norwegian lemming’s fur and its loud barks serve as warnings to predators that it is not a creature to be messed with. This ferocity makes it unique among small rodents. Common predators of Norway lemmings include red foxes, Arctic foxes, ermines, weasels, snowy owls, ravens, and other birds of prey.