Appearance:
The Lemming is 3-6 inches long and 1/2oz-4oz. It has a thick gray
or brown fur that turns white in winter. That helps them
camouflage with the snow. The Lemming has short legs, feet, tail,
and ears to help them keep the heat in.Arctic Lemming By Nikki
Appearance:
The Lemming is 3-6 inches long and 1/2oz-4oz. It has a thick gray
or brown fur that turns white in winter. That helps them
camouflage with the snow. The Lemming has short legs, feet, tail,
and ears to help them keep the heat in.
Habitat: The Lemmings live in meadows, woods, marshes, and the tundra in North America, Asia, Europe, and Alaska. They like to live around glaciers.
Food: The Lemmings eat mostly plants such as mosses, grasses, herbs, shoots, and lichen. They have very sharp teeth which helps them gnaw through tangles of roots, moss, and soil.
Enemies: The Lemmings enemies are foxes, weasles, hawks, owls, gyrfalcon, and wolves.
Life Cycle: The Lemmings live less than two years! They have three to seven babies after they are pregnant for three weeks. About every three years, there is over population. Lemmings mate usually from March to September. All female Lemmings are pregnant in summer. They have up to three litters per year. Baby Lemmings are born under the snow and drink mother's milk to survive.
Other Facts: The Lemmings burrow in the snow to keep the enemies from finding them. When the population grows the Lemmings try to migrate. They are good swimmers with water proof fur, but when they go in the water in a big group most of them drown. The lemmings make paths called "runways" and tunnels under the snow and over roots. In winter the lemmings feet grow bigger and get smaller in the summer. Lemmings don't walk off cliffs or into lakes. They make nests out of their hair, grass, moss, and lichen. They are the smallest animals in the tundra.