Islands That AREN'T Actually Islands

Lately we've been learning about the field of island biogeography, but so far every example we've looked at has been... an island. Today we're changing that by taking a look at three places that despite not exactly being land surrounded by water nonetheless experience the same evolutionary pressures as them. Support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro "Ave Marimba" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Silver Flame" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional music from: https://soundcloud.com/atlas-pro-music Sources / Further Reading https://www.pinnipeds.org/seal-information/species-information-pages/the-phocid-seals/baikal-seal https://oceana.org/marine-life/bearded-seal/#:~:text=The%20bearded%20seal%20is%20the,of%20blubber%20under%20the%20skin. https://peerj.com/articles/9387/ https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.458.1782&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Reconstruction-of-ice-dammed-lakes-and-rerouting-of-rivers-during-the-Early-Weichselian_fig2_237229721 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-019-1470-8#:~:text=The%20amphipods%20(Amphipoda%2C%20Crustacea),the%20Angara%20River%20%5B4%5D. https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-019-1470-8 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-021-01806-9 https://www.reddit.com/r/MarineBiologyGifs/comments/4334k8/this_is_an_amphipod_from_lake_baikal_the_lake_is/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/20106209 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89581-x https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530020-100-spiny-monster-from-the-depths-of-worlds-oldest-lake/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/phocidae https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014021117 https://geographical.co.uk/people/explorers/item/2715-islands-in-the-sky https://www.sanbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/branch-bayliss-tolley-2014-pygmy-chameleons-rhampholeon-platyceps-complex-squamata-chamaeleonidae-de.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rhampholeon-maspictus-sp-nov-A-Holotype-B-Allotype-WR-Branch_fig5_263294877 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61364057/149767110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTMyDtHZXIc https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/mar/25/the-hidden-treasures-of-mount-mabu-in-pictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_H21bV-M4 https://www.fauna-flora.org/news/four-chameleon-species-discovered-in-mozambiques-sky-islands/ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Study-area-northern-Mozambique-sky-islands-A-Mount-Mabu-B-Mount-Namuli-C-Mount_fig2_308699847 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/bhs/thj/2006/00000016/00000003/art00011?crawler=true https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-Tanzania-with-localities-in-white-and-massifs-in-black-where-specimens-were_fig1_264712427 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_H21bV-M4 http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2014/06/rhampholeon-montane-mozambique.html https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecog.03951 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3697658 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236945199_Mammalian_biogeography_of_Patagonia_and_Tierra_del_Fuego https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124217 https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/patagonian-mara https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7208/9780226649214-016/html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-guina-mystery-cat-vulnerable-extinction https://scitechdaily.com/island-gigantism-and-dwarfism-evolutionary-island-rule-confirmed/#:~:text=They%20show%20that%20island%20rule,islands%20for%20mammals%20and%20reptiles. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/7-Valdivian-temperate-rainforests-of-Chile-and-Argentina-based-on-a-regional-mapping_fig4_226640587