[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).