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I'm sure it was a *feeling they had about what was going on around them. I was told it took about four years for the birds to come back and that the silence during that time was 'deafening'.
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Predator of the lemming: long-tailed skkuasWhuh? wwh, your link was rife with spelling errors, and that made it fun to read.  It's always fun to read articles on the Net that have spelling errors! But the long-tailed skkuas? I must go look for that word: skkua. Could it have been skunk? Or is there a skkua and I just never heard of one! Anyway, I'm glad you posted the link, if only to learn the whole lemmings-into-the-sea is myth--and provided by Disney!
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skua British, jaeger
noun [C]
a type of large sea bird which lives in the north Atlantic and steals food from other birds
Well, that explains that. wwh's link misspelled skua, among lots of other words!
Sorry, Scrabble fans. You can't use those two k's for skkua. (Are there two k's in Scrabble?)
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You can't use those two k's for skkua. (Are there two k's in Scrabble?)
...There can be if you use a blankk for one...
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Disney didn't invent that fairytale. I remember reading it seventy years ago. Here's a link that sounds very sensible. When lemming population explodes, they have to migrate in large numbers. At times in strange terrirory, the ones behind may crowd the ftont ones off a cliff. Sounds sensible to me. http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm
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In reply to:
...There can be if you use a blankk for one...
Smart-A in every group!
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skua...large sea bird which lives in the north Atlantic and steals food from other birds
Ther may be more widespread than that: I recall reading that skua steal penguin eggs, too. Having a fondness for penguins I wish the birds had stayed up North after all.
Edit: But since penguins are birds too, I guess the original statement stands as written.
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Well, while we're on the subject of strange birds, we can't very well leave this one out, can we?: http://www.kiwi.bird.freeservers.com/Kiwis lay the biggest eggs! why am I not surprised? "However, kiwis left Australia for New Zealand at some point, possibly on land links via New Caledonia. So, although there are no wild kiwis left there, Australians may also proudly point to the kiwi as "their bird". (Hmmmm...) To hear the sound of a kiwi, click here: http://www.learnz.org.nz/2k/nestegg/index.htm oh, dear me!!!...no comment!
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