What Queer Instinct Tells 'Em Drop Dead? SCHENECTADY, N Y. — Scien tists at General Electric's labora tories here have been trying to decide why the lemmings of Nor way commit suicide each year. Many theories have been ad vanced to explain why these curi ous animals, which drown them selves in the ocean each year, have such a strange habit, but none are completely acceptable, and the real cause is not known. However it seems to be associ ated with over population and the subsequent scarcity of food Then they migrate to the west perhaps m search of more food, and when they reach the shoreline, they keep on going and drown. To explain why they migrate westwards, rather than in some other direction, it has been sug gested that in past ages they found food in a land mass now under water, and that this racial habit still persists Live coral is called a polyp.

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