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GREAT MIGRATIONS: Swag Giveaway, Top 10 List & Video Clips

Maj Canton - November 5, 2010

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Are you ready to take the trek to your couch and watch GREAT MIGRATIONS this weekend? To get you ready for Nat Geo's global event, TV Tango is giving away a swag bag of GREAT MIGRATIONS merchandise! Plus, we have a list of the Top 10 Things You Might Not Know About Animal Migrations and a 15-minute sneak peek video for the series.

 

GREAT MIGRATIONS premieres on Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 8pm ET/PT on National Geographic Channel.

 

 

 


GIVEAWAY

To enter TV Tango's giveaway, you should scroll down and take a one-question quiz about GREAT MIGRATIONS. The person who enters the giveaway before 11:59PM (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 and correctly answers the question scores the GREAT MIGRATIONS grab bag, which includes one each of the following items:

   
   
  Official Companion Book (click here for product details)  Official T-shirt (not available in stores) 2011 Wall Calendar (click here for product details)  Kids' Book about Elephant Migrations (click here for product details)  Official Soundtrack CD (not available in stores)


If there is a tie and multiple people answer correctly, then a single person from that group will be randomly selected to receive the giveaway. The recipient must reside in the United States and be at least 18 years old.


At the beginning of the quiz, we do ask that you enter your email address and name (as User Name) so we can contact you if you're selected. TV Tango respects your privacy and will not sell, distribute or otherwise use your email address for any purpose other than to possibly communicate directly with you for this contest.

 

Contents of grab bag courtesy of National Geographic Channel.

 

UPDATE on November 14, 2010 at 8:42am PST: Congratulations to Judy P. of Calabasas, CA for being the recipient of the GREAT MIGRATIONS giveaway!

 

UPDATE on November 11, 2010 at 12:01am PST: The contest period has closed. We are reviewing all entries and will randomly select one person who correctly answered the quiz question.

 


TOP 10 LIST

Check out this list of THE TOP 10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT ANIMAL MIGRATIONS, compiled and provided by series producer David Hamlin. David oversaw every aspect of the production of GREAT MIGRATIONS, which was three years in the making with crews traveling 420,000 miles across 20 countries and all seven continents. 

The Top 10 Things You Might Not Know About Animal Migrations

 


1. The largest biomass migration on Earth is performed by one of the tiniest creatures -- plankton -- as seen in this satellite image of a blue plankton bloom off the Ireland coast.
  6. The longest land migration in the Americas, below the Arctic's caribou, is Wyoming's pronghorn antelope.  They migrate more than 100 miles every year, crossing highways and fences.
  2. Migrating male sperm whales can travel one million miles in a lifetime.   7. Many Great White Sharks migrate thousands of miles every year, traversing the oceans in search of feeding and breeding opportunities.
 


3. Army ants can migrate in colonies of up to 700,000 -- traveling the equivalent of a human marathon every day.   8. The longest elephant migration on Earth takes place in one of the most difficult environments on Earth -- the scorching 120 degree desert of Mali, Africa.
  4. It takes four generations for the monarch butterfly to perform its annual migration from Mexico to as far north as Canada and back.   9. The black browed albatross is born to move -- it may remain at sea for seven months out of the year.
 


5. The arctic tern weighs only 4 oz. but can migrate 50,000 miles/year -- the longest migration of any bird on Earth.   10. The Serengeti's Nile crocodiles rely on wildebeest migration to survive. After devouring wildebeest, they may have to survive a full year without eating, until the migrants return.

 


VIDEO CLIPS

If you can't wait for Sunday, you can watch this 15-minute preview of GREAT MIGRATIONS in the embedded video below.

 

 

If you enjoyed that clip, you should check out 30 more video clips from GREAT MIGRATIONS.