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A lemming is a small rodent usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes. [1]

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Adult Swim

Adult Swim (stylized as and often shortened to) is the adult-oriented nighttime programming block of the American children's cable network Cartoon Network and programmed by William Street Productions.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Amur lemming

The Amur lemming (Lemmus amurensis) is a species of lemmings found near the Amur River in Siberia.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Aposematism

Aposematism (from Greek ἀπό apo away, σῆμα sema sign) is a term coined by Edward Bagnall PoultonPoulton, 1890.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Arctic lemming

The Arctic lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Arvicolinae

The Arvicolinae are a subfamily of rodents that includes the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.

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Arvicolini

Arvicolini is a tribe of voles in the subfamily Arvicolinae.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Blink-182

Blink-182 (often stylized as blink-182; pronounced "blink one eighty two") is an American rock band formed in Poway, California in 1992.

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Bog lemming

The genus Synaptomys is a group of North American lemmings.

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Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Carl Barks

Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carrying capacity

The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Collared lemming

Dicrostonyx is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

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Cricetidae

The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea.

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Cyril M. Kornbluth

Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians.

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Eolagurus

Eolagurus is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Folklore

Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.

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Gerbil

A gerbil is a small mammal of the subfamily Gerbillinae in the order Rodentia.

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Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

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Guinea pig

The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as cavy or domestic cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia.

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Hamster

Hamsters are rodents (order Rodentia) belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae, which contains about 25 species classified in six or seven genera.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.

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Hibernation

Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in endotherms.

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Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay (Inuktitut: Kangiqsualuk ilua, baie d'Hudson) (sometimes called Hudson's Bay, usually historically) is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.

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Iñupiat

The Iñupiat (or Inupiaq) are a native Alaskan people, whose traditional territory spans Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the Canada–United States border.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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John Belushi

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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Kibibyte

The kibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for quantities of digital information.

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Lagurus (rodent)

Lagurus is a genus in the subfamily Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings, and related species).

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Lemmings (advertisement)

Lemmings was a television commercial that launched the "Macintosh Office" by Apple Computer in the United States, in January 1985, a year after the introduction of the Apple Macintosh in 1984.

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Lemmings (National Lampoon)

National Lampoon: Lemmings, a spinoff of the humor magazine National Lampoon, was a 1973 stage show that helped launch the performing careers of John Belushi, Christopher Guest, and Chevy Chase.

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Lemmings (video game)

Lemmings is a puzzle-platformer video game originally developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga in 1991 and later ported for numerous other platforms.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Mass suicide

Mass suicide is a form of suicide, occurring when a group of people simultaneously kill themselves.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Mouse

A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.

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Muroidea

The Muroidea are a large superfamily of rodents, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and many other relatives.

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Muskrat

The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and is an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.

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Nelson's collared lemming

Nelson's collared lemming (Dicrostonyx nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

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North American brown lemming

The North American brown lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus) is a small North American lemming.

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Northern bog lemming

The northern bog lemming (Synaptomys borealis) is a small North American lemming.

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Northern collared lemming

The northern collared lemming or Nearctic collared lemming (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus), sometimes called the Peary Land collared lemming in Canada, is a small North American lemming.

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Norton Sound

Norton Sound is an inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula.

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Norway lemming

The Norway lemming, also Norwegian lemming (Lemmus lemmus) is a common species of lemming found in northern Fennoscandia.

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Ogilvie Mountains collared lemming

The Ogilvie Mountains collared lemming (Dicrostonyx nunatakensis) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.

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Ole Worm

Ole Worm (13 May 1588 – 31 August 1654), who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary.

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Pawn Hearts

Pawn Hearts is the fourth album by English progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released in October 1971 on Charisma Records.

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Pearls Before Swine (comics)

Pearls Before Swine, (also known as Pearls) is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.

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Population cycle

A population cycle in zoology is a phenomenon where populations rise and fall over a predictable period of time.

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Przewalski's steppe lemming

Przewalski's steppe lemming (Eolagurus przewalskii) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.

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Rat

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.

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Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.

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Richardson's collared lemming

The Richardson's collared lemming (Dicrostonyx richardsoni) is a small North American lemming.

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Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Siberian brown lemming

The Siberian brown lemming (Lemmus sibiricus) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae found in the Russian Federation.

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Snowy owl

The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus), also known as the polar owl or white owl, is a large, white owl of the typical owl family.

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Southern bog lemming

The southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) is a small North American lemming.

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Spontaneous generation

Spontaneous generation refers to an obsolete body of thought on the ordinary formation of living organisms without descent from similar organisms.

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Stephan Pastis

Stephan Thomas Pastis (born January 16, 1968) is an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine.

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Steppe lemming

The steppe lemming or steppe vole (Lagurus lagurus) is a small, plump, light-grey rodent, similar in appearance to the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus), but not in the same genus.

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Stoat

The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel or simply the weasel in Ireland where the least weasel does not occur, is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.

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Synchronicity

Synchronicity (Synchronizität) is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.

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Synchronicity II

"Synchronicity II" is a song by the Police, and the third single from their album Synchronicity.

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The American Mercury

The American Mercury was an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981.

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The Borgias (2011 TV series)

The Borgias is a historical-fiction drama television series created by Neil Jordan; it debuted in 2011 and was canceled in 2013.

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The Marching Morons

"The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story by American writer Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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True lemming

The genus Lemmus contains several species of lemming sometimes referred to as the true lemmings.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Unalaska collared lemming

The Unalaska collared lemming (Dicrostonyx unalascensis) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.

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Uncle Scrooge

Uncle Scrooge (stylized as Uncle $crooge) is a comic book starring Scrooge McDuck ("the richest duck in the world"), his nephew Donald Duck, and grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and revolving around their adventures in Duckburg and around the world.

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Ungava collared lemming

The Ungava collared lemming or Labrador collared lemming (Dicrostonyx hudsonius) is a small North American lemming.

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Van der Graaf Generator

Van der Graaf Generator are an English progressive rock band, formed in 1967 in Manchester by singer-songwriters Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith and the first act signed by Charisma Records.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Vole

A vole is a small rodent.

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White Wilderness (film)

White Wilderness is an American-Canadian nature documentary produced by Walt Disney Productions in 1958 noted for its propagation of the misconception of lemming suicide.

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Wood lemming

The wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

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Wrangel Island lemming

The Wrangel Island lemming (Lemmus portenkoi) is a species of lemming endemic to Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Wrangel lemming

The Wrangel lemming (Dicrostonyx vinogradovi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

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Yellow steppe lemming

The yellow steppe lemming (Eolagurus luteus) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.

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Yupik

The Yupik are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming

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