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Lemming

A lemming is a small rodent, usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes. Lemmings form the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae) together with voles and muskrats, which form part of the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. They play an important role in the Arctic ecosystem, acting as grazers of…

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Lemming

Nodes89
Edges88
Triples79
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022472
Components1

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related to Classification · 21
Lemming → Arctic, Arvicolinae, Beringian, DicrostonychiniDicrostonyxNorthern, East Siberian, LagurusSteppe, MyopusWood, Nelson's, North American, Norway, Ogilvie Mountains, Order RodentiaSuperfamily MuroideaFamily CricetidaeSubfamily, Przewalski's, Richardson's, Southern, SynaptomysNorthern, Tribe LaguriniEolagurusYellow, Tribe LemminiLemmusAmur, Unalaska, Ungava
related to Misconceptions · 21
Lemming → Atlantic Ocean, August, Bavaria, Carl Linnaeus, Contrary, Driven, In, It, Jacob Ziegler, Lemmings, Lemuria, Misconceptions, Norwegian, Ole Worm, Popular Science Monthly, The, This, Thus, Walt Disney, White Wilderness
related to External links · 14
Lemming → Alaska Wildlife News, Alaskan, Archived, Article, Collared Lemming, CS1, KiB, Lemmings, Nils Christian Stenseth, PDF, Rebuttal, Retrieved, The Lemming Cycle, Wayback Machine
related to Behaviour · 8
Lemming → Fluctuations, For, Lemmings, Like, The, The Norway, West Siberian, Why
related to Description and habitat · 6
Lemming → In, Lemmings, Like, Their, These, They
related to In popular culture and media · 4
Lemming → Due, Interview, James Thurber's, The
is a · 1
Lemming → small rodent

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collared lemmings steppe siberian bog arctic tribe lemmus voles norway lagurus suicide brown population west american arvicolinae groenlandicus ungava hudsonius

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Lemmingis asmall rodent0.90text
snowy owls to areas further southinstance ofand may fuel irruptions of birds of prey0.80text
volesinstance ofwhich showed that they are anatomically similar to most other rodents0.80text
hamstersinstance ofwhich showed that they are anatomically similar to most other rodents0.80text
and the work of Carl Linnaeus proved that they had a natural origin.Lemmings have become the subject of a widely popular misconception that they are driven to commit mass suicide when they migrate by jumping off cliffs or drowning in bodies of waterinstance ofwhich showed that they are anatomically similar to most other rodents0.80text
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourLike0.60section
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourThe Norway0.60section
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourWest Siberian0.60section
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourWhy0.60section
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourLemmings0.60section
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourThe0.60section
Lemmingrelated to BehaviourFluctuations0.60section

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