| Variations in lemming abundance had a considerable effect on many other vertebrate species in this community. |
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| The goose-predator interaction is further complicated by the presence of nesting snowy owls in peak lemming years. |
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| He even moved closer to the set, like a lemming drawn to the edge of a cliff. |
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| At such times, starvation, disease, and predation cause lemming numbers to dwindle rapidly until the lemmings seem on the point of vanishing. |
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| We know that nesting success of Snowy Owls and survival of arctic fox pups are both related to lemming abundance. |
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| The quantity and quality of available food are known to vary with the stage of the lemming cycle, but proof of cause and effect is still lacking. |
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| When you find the whole nation, is behaving like a horde of mythical lemmings, about to go over the cliff, you don't want to follow lemming opinion! |
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| Predation intensity on geese was closely related to the lemming cycle, a consequence of an indirect interaction between lemming and geese via shared predators. |
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| Meanwhile, the tundra ecosystem is gathering its resources in preparation for the outburst of energy that will come with the next lemming year. |
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| For unknown reasons, lemming populations fluctuate drastically, peaking about every four years and then crashing almost to extinction. |
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| During a lemming crash, fatigue, intense cold, and especially lack of food take their toll on the population, and many young foxes succumb. |
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| When the lemming population increases, many plants are consumed, and there is a large accumulation of feces. |
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| Unfortunately, no one has found a disease that is rampant in all declining lemming populations. |
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| For example, if you had a lemming as a pet and you used it to scare other children, this would be considered abusive. |
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| For example, what happens if a bear meets a deer, a lemming meets a fox, or a wolf meets a hare. |
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| The density of lemming nests is calculated using the total distance the observer walks, and the perpendicular distance measurements. |
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| There's a definite lemming effect with some of our horses and when punters see a bit of money they follow it in. |
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| Predators switch to feeding on alternative prey including ground-nesting birds and bird eggs in years when lemming abundance is low. |
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| A fox and a wild boar, a hare and a lemming, a chinchilla and a slender loris, a couple of toads and dodos trudge along with solemn persistence. |
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| Herbivores on the tundra include the Arctic hare, lemming, muskox, and caribou. |
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| Even after local lemming peaks, the Arctic fox population tends to collapse back to levels dangerously close to nonviability. |
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| His is a glassy-eyed autohypnosis that carries the voyager out like a lemming to his death. |
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| What makes the huge lemming rush nowadays toward shallows such as these, in contrast to the unsoundable depths of the gospel? |
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| Lemmings, particularly the collared lemming with its presumed origin from the sky, were sometimes used by shamans as a source of supernatural powers. |
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| If you were caught on the leeward side of a bonfire you'd generally do your utmost to get out of the smoke, but the trendy lemming in us for some reason wants to pay to inhale it. |
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| But the grandchild persists and so the grandmother tells the grandchild about a creepy crawly hairless lemming and tickles her grandchild pretending to be a lemming. |
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| On the other hand, when peaks in the lemming population occur, vegetation becomes scarce, and large numbers of lemmings move into less densely populated areas. |
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| In the Canadian High Arctic the musk ox, Peary caribou, Arctic hare, and collared lemming are the only mammalian herbivores, and their predators, the wolf, Arctic fox, wolverine, and ermine, are also present. |
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| By exploring this site you'll discover Arctic animals like the lemming or the polar bear, and you'll meet a few people who can educate you all about the cryosphere and the main traditions and culture of the Inuit people. |
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| The lemming is the smallest mammal of the High Arctic. |
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| Often a male will carry a dead lemming in his bill during these displays. |
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| The special-status wildlife species that may be present in the study area are the least weasel, rock vole, southern bog lemming, wolverine, woodland caribou, Canada lynx, monarch butterfly, pygmy shrew and polar bear. |
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| The pygmy shrew and southern bog lemming, which have limited home ranges, will experience habitat loss and reduced numbers as a result of land clearing and impoundment. |
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| Similarly, the lower number of lemming nests counted during the plot surveys in 2002, 2003 and 2004 seems to correspond with the lower number of lemming sightings during those years. |
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| A lemming population decline may produce a surplus of Snowy Owls that will, for a time, flood into southern Canada to the delight of bird watchers. |
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| The increase in the number of nests counted during the plot surveys in 2000, 2001 and 2005 corresponds with an increase in lemming sightings made during those years. |
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| When a local lemming population crashes, Snowy Owls may not nest at all or they may move 50 to 100 km and breed in another area where lemmings are available. |
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| Moreover, the expansion of swamplands in the exposed riparian areas of the Rupert River will increase the potential habitat area for the southern bog lemming. |
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| Snowy Owls, the only raptors, or birds of prey, present in winter, are poorly equipped for digging through snow, so an owl could only strike a lemming on the snow surface. |
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| The few native land mammals in Greenland include the polar bear, arctic fox, reindeer, arctic hare, musk ox, collared lemming, ermine, and arctic wolf. |
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| At times I feel like the only sensible lemming on the cliff, saying 'this is stupid why are we doing this, why are we going to dive off the cliff? |
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| Abacus gets no help from his parents to stop the Professor and his one support is Houdini, an albino lemming, whom he had rescued from disemboweling by the Professor. |
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| Recruiting analyst Tom Lemming said Clausen is the most highly touted QB he has seen in his 27 years in the business, at least publicity-wise. |
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