[deltateam]

upon reading the whole article, it is mostly true.

"mass dispersal" occurs when the population grows too much and the food runs out, sometimes it can be very directional, and sometimes they will pile up on the shore until they gets too packed and they try to swim across frigid waters.

the Disney mass suicide documentary says this can be observed every 7 - 10 years, and then they over dramatized how it looks

edit: removed blue planet reference, peace!

edit2: alright folks, what is inaccurate or disagreeable about what I wrote? I'm downvoted so far that I can't even post a rebuttal anymore and have zero feedback about how I read the Alaska Government's article incorrectly

[jakevn]

Suicide is deliberate. Any unfortunate death due to overcrowding attributed to suicide is simply false. There is no evidence of intentional death or racing towards a cliff, merely that when faced with no other apparent route of escape, they have a great chance of dying when trying to cross a body of frigid water. That's entirely different from the portrayal by Disney and the associated myth.

[garmaine]

I’ve never seen the Disney “documentary”, but then I’ve heard this myth many times before. And never, not once, is suicide meant as intentional, but rather that they’d just follow the leader off a cliff or something. Like the ants that can be made to walk in a circle forever (also a myth).

[gowld]

Blue Planet is not filming captive animals in faked environments doing unnatural behaviors.

[toomanybeersies]

Some of Blue Planet was filmed in aquariums. It's an open secret that David Attenborough documentaries use footage of captive animals to create a narrative.

However, they don't kill the captive animals, which is the key difference.

[soperj]

You will now be downvoted more for talking about the downvoting.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Give people a downvote button and they're going to downvote stuff they don't want to hear. Anyone who believes otherwise is deluding themselves.