Most likely it catches numbers of those odd little animals known as lemmings just as winter begins, and stores them away in a kind of larder, where the cold prevents their bodies from decaying.
These great migrations take place, as a rule, about once in seven years, and no one seems to know quite where the lemmings come from, or why they travel in this singular manner.
Various kinds of rodents known as lemmings are found in North America.
There are many more Brown Lemmings than Banded Lemmings, and their little paths run everywhere through the grass and moss.
But the most interesting thing about these Lemmings is the way they migrate.
Once in a while it happens that food becomes very scarce where the Lemmings are.
The farmers try to destroy them, but they soon give up the attempt, as for days and days the lemmings come on in great waves, eating up the grass and the crops wherever they pass.
So the pretty little lemmings are on occasions more to be dreaded than are even bears and wolves, but fortunately "lemming-years" do not come round very often, and the whole country is not visited by the pest at the same time.
The usual habitat of lemmings is the high lands or fells of the great central mountain chain of Norway and Sweden, from the southern branches of the Langfjeldene in Christiansand stift to the North Cape and the Varangerfjord.
Hunting easily and when the mood was upon him, he brought three morelemmings to the storehouse that same day.
Lemmings must however occasionally occur in incredible numbers, to judge by the holes and passages, excavated by these animals, by which the ground is crossed in all directions.
It consisted of a box carefully constructed of broad stout planks, fixed to the ground with earthfast stakes and cross-bars, so that neither beasts of prey nor lemmings could get through.
Late Magdalenian layer containing the bandedlemmings of the tundras.
The Buehl stage of Postglacial advance in the Alps; renewal of severe conditions of cold moist climate, and spread all over western Europe of the arctic banded and Obi lemmings of the Upper Rodent Layer.
Along the Rhine and the Danube the banded lemmings become less frequent; the jerboas, hamsters, and susliks of the steppes become more abundant.
At Port Kennedy several ermines and lemmingswere also caught.
Sometimes we saw tiny lemmings before our feet, and once we heard the cry of a cuckoo from far away amongst the trees.
Reindeer moss carpeted the ground, and little black and tan lemmings ran about amongst the moss.
On June 15, one had eaten parts of two large lemmings caught in traps along the edge of a snow-bound lake.
The first contained five fresh eggs, and its top was flush with the bare ground in an old excavation made by brown lemmings between three bunches of cotton-grass.
The backs of several lemmings caught in traps had scars probably made by jaegers or conceivably by snowy owls.
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.
The burrow had been excavated by lemmings on a mound of earth thrown up by a bulldozer.
On July 24, four jaegers flew over areas where brown lemmings had been trapped in greatest numbers.
Fortunately for Jerry and the cub, his thoughts on cubs and lemmings lasted only a fractional second, so all-inclusive is the mind's apprehension of a situation.
And, after the continents separated, or the band of land joining them sank beneath the sea, the lemmings blithely continued their trek, and perished.
So safe that the migration of the lemmings became instinctive.
Lemmings might die, but the ages-old instinct of the specie wouldn't.
The parents had kept a good larder for their progeny, as the outer cell and the several passages leading to it contained many lemmings and ermines, and the bones of fish, ducks, and hares, in great quantities.
On several occasions I observed Naps, the dog, fast asleep with one or two lemmings huddled away between its legs, like so many pups.
The food of this fox is various, but seems to consist principally of lemmings and of birds and their eggs.
This suicidal act of the lemmings strikes one as a kind of insanity.
This community of mind is seen in such an instance as that of the migrating lemmings from the Scandinavian peninsula.
The surviving lemmings are specialized in many features and therefore are considered as advanced end-products of an evolutionary radiation of a primitive microtine stock, of which all earlier stages are extinct.
Therefore, the baculum, in these assumedly primitive genera, would be expected to resemble the baculum in the lemmings or at least the most primitive lemmings.
The baculum in lemmings as a group cannot then be considered more primitive than in voles as a group, although the voles are usually considered to be more advanced.
Both of the tribes, the lemmings and the voles, as well as primitive representatives of each tribe (not considering Ellobius) occur in both the Old World and New World.
The baculum in the genera of lemmings increases in robustness and the development of processes from Dicrostonyx, to Synaptomys, to Myopus, to Lemmus--the same order outlined above for total of specialization.
Monograph of the voles and lemmings (Microtinae), living and extinct, Vol.
In this they resemble the baculum of the genus Lemmus, the most advanced genus of lemmings according to Hinton.
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