But there is a peculiarity about the lemming which makes the country-folk of Norway more afraid of him than of any other animal.
The next moment he lifted his head with a fatlemming dangling from either side of his fine jaws.
He was not hungry, for the wastes were just now so alive with nesting birds and swarming lemmings, and their fat little cousins, the lemming mice, that his hunting was a swift and easy matter.
The windless air was faintly musical with the hum of insects and with the occasional squeaks and scurryings of unseen lemming mice in their secret roadways under the dense green sphagnum.
This creature from the past with his lemming legends and his improved building lots would be a fountain of precious vicious self-interest.
Anybody who could pick on the lemming analogy is going to be useful to us.
I figure on putting some lemming urge into the population.
A New Bog Lemming (Genus Synaptomys) From Nebraska BY J.
All specimens of the newly named boglemming are from the border zone between the wet-substrate habitat of M.
The Cooper lemming mouse (Synaptomys cooperi) differs from the prairie vole in having the upper incisors grooved, and in possessing a shorter tail which approximates the hind foot in length.
Some of the cuttings may have been made by lemming mice (Synaptomys cooperi) which were also common in the area.
Finally in the Fourth Glacial Stage arrived the lemmingof the river Obi, also the more northern banded lemming, the arctic fox, the wolverene, and the ermine, as well as the arctic hare.
In the Iberian peninsula the tundra fauna did not penetrate as far south as Portugal, although the Norwegian lemming (Myodes lemmus) reached the vicinity of Lisbon.
At the very same time man with the banded lemming arrived at Schweizersbild, near the Lake of Constance; at a slightly earlier period, with the dawn of Magdalenian culture, man entered the sister station of Kesslerloch.
The lemming (A) is also shown one-seventh life size.
Lemming tracks were abundant, and occasionally these little animals would be seen running along the snow.
Woe betide the unfortunate little lemming observed by Nellie at any distance from its habitation.
It burrows in the ground, like the lemming and water-rat; and as it gnaws through the roots of trees that lie in its way, it has been known to cause very serious loss of property.
In color the European lemming is blackish brown above and yellowish white below, while its length is about six inches.
The ground besides is at certain places so thickly strewed with lemming dung, that it must have a considerable influence on the condition of the soil.
The lemming is not found on Spitzbergen, but must at certain seasons occur in incredible numbers on Novaya Zemlya.
Some bears, as has already been stated, were also seen, and everywhere among the heaps of stones there were numerous remains of the lemming and the fox.
Animal life on land was scanty; some few reindeer were seen, a mountain fox was killed, and a lemming caught.
It dropped to the tundra and picked up a lemming by its back and after adjusting the lemming swallowed it tail first.
In the same area, especially in grass on and around low mounds, there were approximately 50 brown lemmings (18 lemming nests examined), many of which used the mounds inhabited by the bunting.
Fecal pellets of the brown lemming were beneath the nest.
One flew 50 meters with a brown lemmingin its mouth and after alighting, consumed it.
A fifth nest of six fresh eggs was only 10 centimeters from a well-used trail of a brown lemming and within 1/3 of a meter from the underground nest of the lemming.
On June 17, these birds were preying on live lemming and swallowing them whole.
These may be looked upon as more or less Arctic species, since they occur within the Polar Circle, but they are not so exclusively confined to that region as the Banded Lemming (Cuniculus torquatus).
These were found to belong to the Scandinavian Lemming (M.
Until recently no Lemming remains had been found to the south of France, but Mr. Barrett-Hamilton announced to us a short time since that Dr.
All the young of the first litter of the various Lemming females thrive, and six weeks later at the most these also multiply.
The lemming and the musk ox found a home, and the wild horse pranced about unrestrained by the hand of man.
The Hudson's Bay lemming is covered by very fine soft and long hair of an ash colour.
The Lapland lemming resembles the preceding and is remarkable for its extensive migrations.
I observed every where about the sides of the hills holes dug by the Lemming Rat.
The reindeer feeds also on frogs, snakes, and even on the Lemming or Mountain Rat (Mus Lemmus), often pursuing the latter to so great a distance as not to find his way back again.
The northern bog lemming is evidently not generally distributed along the Alaska Highway but may be locally numerous in cover of grass and sedge especially in marsh and bog habitat.
Evings forbid as a lemming should come betwixt us seeing as I am that shook on account o' pore, little Miss Pell.
Stopping before Ashby he said in his best professional manner: "Re-gards of the Girl--hot whisky straight with lemming extract.
They went off yesterday morning and left me a lemming to live upon while they were away.
Why do grouse and lemmingrun and hide when they see my shadow on the cliff?
When he was out on the snow, he looked around and felt foolish, for Mr. Lemming was not coming after him at all.
That night Mr. Lemming closed up the tunnel to his house and made a new one under a rock, where he thought Little White Fox would not be able to find it.
The longer Mr. Lemming looked at him, the more sure he became that Little White Fox was some relation of his.
Of course Little White Fox should have waited until Mr. Lemming came home, and then asked him for something to eat.
Mr. Lemming moved over to one side of the room as if to say, "You may go out if you like.
Little White Fox knew who he was right away, for he had heard his mother speak of the Lemming family.
By pulling the ends of the string alternately, the lemmingwas made to jump out of the hole on one side, run across the board and into the other, very much as a live lemming runs from one tunnel to another on the tundra.
The lemming was a narrow strip of wolf's fur, about 3 inches long, doubled in the middle, with the middle of the string hitched into the bight.
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