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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLNH:1975.76 Institution name Colchester Collections Object name Norway lemming, lemming, mount Description Mount of a lemming, a small rodent usually found near the Arctic. Fossil evidence shows that lemmings lived alongside Woolly mammoths in the Colchester area during the Pleistocene period. This species now lives on the Fennoscandian Peninsula - an area including parts of Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. They spend the winter in nests under the snow but when it thaws in spring they move to lower ground, where they spend the summer. Subject Zoology, Animals, Mammals Scientific name (Common Name) Lemmus lemmus (Norway Lemming), Muridae (Rat, Mouse And Vole) Location On Display - Natural History Museum, Colchester Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLNH:1975.76
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

Norway lemming, lemming, mount
Description

Mount of a lemming, a small rodent usually found near the Arctic. Fossil evidence shows that lemmings lived alongside Woolly mammoths in the Colchester area during the Pleistocene period. This species now lives on the Fennoscandian Peninsula - an area including parts of Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. They spend the winter in nests under the snow but when it thaws in spring they move to lower ground, where they spend the summer.
Subject

Zoology, Animals, Mammals
Scientific name (Common Name)

Lemmus lemmus (Norway Lemming), Muridae (Rat, Mouse And Vole)
Location

On Display - Natural History Museum, Colchester

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