Lemmings discovered that want to live, spread DNA
ARTIC CIRCLE – Whilst filming a new nature series on Lemmings and other Arvicolinae behaviour, BBC producers and filmmakers discovered that a large majority of the lemming population had a distinct desire to survive, even whilst being beaten over the head with a boom stand.
The rodents where being filmed in Norway’s Circumborial region - an arid and desolate tundra - as the BBC film crew tried to capture the lemmings sacrificing themselves to birds of prey as they glided overhead.
Said BBC sound engineer Bertram Flood, “After the first eagle passed, the lemmings dashed for their lives and hid in underground burrows. Even after filming for a week the same behaviour persisted. Eventually we were forced to bludgeon [the lemmings] to death so the viewer would perceive them to be self sacrificing as we didn’t want to upset the apple cart.”
Unbelieveably Lemmings have DNA
In light of the BBC findings, several powerful authorities in the field of biology and natural history flew to Norway to discover the real truths about this little known rodent. Before the documentary was shot Lemmings were perceived as the only mammal which had proven the suspension of the natural order of life, and not had the desire to pass on its DNA.
Deoxyribonuleic acid is the genetic code behind all living things; a system of storing and decoding information passed from generation to generation. “Who would have thought an animal as pathetic and worthless as a lemming would have DNA?” said biologist Henry Davis whilst scratching his head in his rented lodge in the Norwegian wilderness.
