lemming
bleimanb | September 5, 2007Northern Finland is experiencing its largest lemming migration in 20 years, according to this article in Helsingin Sanomat's "International Edition" (we never miss an issue!).
Though the little rodents (Norway lemmings, Lemus lemus) have not yet begun swarming in a locust-like frenzy, they have been turning up all over Lapland, including drowned in the nets of salmon fishermen, clinging to the oar of a rower and attached to a woman's ankle as it bit her.
Isn't this how The Omen starts?
One popular myth about lemmings is that they react to overpopulation by leaping off of cliffs to their…