LEMMING

The Lemming is a small plant eating rodent. The Lemming live in the cold tundra area of Northern America and Northern Eurasia and have very thick fur to keep them warm.

Lemmings mostly weigh 30 to 112 grams (1-4 oz) and are about 7 to 15 centimetres (2.75 - 6 in) long. They usually have long, soft fur and very short tails. They are herbivorous, feeding mostly on leaves and shoots, grasses, and sedges in particular, but also roots and bulbs in some cases.

Lemmings do not hibernate through the harsh northern winter. They remain active, finding food by burrowing through the snow and utilising grasses clipped and stored in advance. They are solitary animals by nature, meeting only to mate and then going their separate ways, but like all rodents they have a high reproductive rate and can breed rapidly in good seasons.

During winter they live in a burrow in the snow.



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