![]() They are good swimmers but sometimes misjudge the breadth of the cold water and drown Their young are bred in a layer of air formed by warm ground melting the snow just above it, called the “subnivean space”. ![]() Lemmings live in tunnels under the snow, sleeping in cosy nests of grass, feathers and musk ox wool. When asked to join the death cult, they squeak-bark, “No!” They refuse the poisoned Kool-Aid. Lemmings do not practise mass suicide by jumping into the sea. Aren’t lemmings so meek and stupid that they march en masse to their deaths, throwing themselves off cliffs without a thought?Īs it turns out, no: lemmings “acting like lemmings” is a myth, as Sonia Shah explains in her book, The Next Great Migration. You’ll probably want to choose one in your own time zone, so as not to be staring at a dark, night-time screen from the other side of the world (or, look for nocturnal animals in your own time zone!).“They have been known,” we are told as the screen shows a lemming, surrounded by plum-coloured leaves, baring its rodent teeth and squeak-barking at the camera, “to kill weasels and fight off skua.” (Skua are aggressive, seagull-like birds.) Some are “professional” setups from zoos and sanctuaries, and some or “home-made” setups focused on bird feeders or fish tanks. Some have natural sound, but most are silent. How long can you watch one of these streams, with no story line, and little/no sound? Nature in motion: live cameras from around the world, Audubon Top 10 Wildlife Web Cams, Explore, offer lots of choices. Let’s check that out with a few nature live-streams. But the music-less 24 hour live stream called “reality” is probably not your idea of the perfect nature documentary either.” “When you watch nature documentaries like the BBC’s famous Planet Earth series, do you take for granted that everything you’re seeing is 100% real? We wouldn’t blame you if you did, but as Simon Cade of DSLRguide explains in this video, you’d be wrong….While the amount of “manipulation” that takes place in the cutting room of a nature doc varies with the editor and how far the producer is willing to push the truth, the fact is: every nature documentary is edited to tell a story.” Watch the video below, and read the post, and think about it through the lens of “fake news”.Ĭade ends with a question: “Is it disappointing that nature docs, even the best ones, are at least somewhat manipulated to help tell a story and engage their audience? Sure. I thought about this recently when I read How Nature Documentaries are Fake: A Filmmaker’s Perspective, by DL Cade, on PetaPixel. ( See Lemming Suicide Myth Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior, The Truth about Norwegian Lemmings, White Wilderness.) It was one of the first colour TV shows I saw as a child on our family’s new colour TV set.) Imagine my surprise and horror (Disney “cheated”?) when it was learned that it wasn’t a “real” documentary at all, but that the lemming scene had been faked. ![]() ![]() (I will admit that I remember it vividly. My guess is that most of you reading this post are not old enough to have watched the above television show when it was first broadcast in 1958. Edited version just showing the fake footage.” Footage of lemmings jumping off cliffs was later found out to be faked. “The 1958 Disney documentary into lemmings that won the academy award.
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