Great Migrations begin on National Geographic TV tomorrow...
... well, the new series Great Migrations begins on said television channel tomorrow, in what's being rolled out as a global event. The migrations themselves have been ongoing spectacularly (and often spectacularly unnoticed by us) for a while now. If you want to see some fantastic footage of a variety of animals migrating through different places, on land, in the water, through the air, across the planet - get ready to see it in a typically televisual National Geographic special. After weeks of wanting to watch it but being distracted by various other things, I finally started on my preview discs last night, and will share my reviews here soon as I work my way through them. For now, let me just whet your appetite with a clip of one of the segments from the first episode "Born to Move" that set my mouth watering - ok, it is visually appetizing, but I also I happened to be watching it with a friend who is a seafood enthusiast from India's left coast - and we both wondered if the remoteness of the island where these critters occur has saved them from humanity's never-satiated appetites:
Here another clip, of danger at the end of a rather more well-known and truly mind-boggling migration, that of the Monarch butterflies across north America:
What I'm really excited about is the extra hours that come at the end of the series, especially the Science of Migrations, where we learn more about the clever ways scientists like Martin Wikelski have devised to track even such small creatures as the Monarchs across vast continents. You'll have to wait for that one to air on Nov 9th.
Here another clip, of danger at the end of a rather more well-known and truly mind-boggling migration, that of the Monarch butterflies across north America:
What I'm really excited about is the extra hours that come at the end of the series, especially the Science of Migrations, where we learn more about the clever ways scientists like Martin Wikelski have devised to track even such small creatures as the Monarchs across vast continents. You'll have to wait for that one to air on Nov 9th.
Meanwhile, if you want more reviews before I start posting mine, here's a round-up of reviews from some fellow science bloggers (including this one from the now $10k scholarship winning nerd Christie Wilcox, of whom I wrote here recently), all of them raving about the Science episode, in a mini-carnival put together on the NGC blog. And get ready for the spectacle to begin on your telly tomorrow (although you might want to turn the volume down if you are allergic to overwrought prose - but I'll save the quibbles for my review).
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