3 More Islands That AREN'T Actually Islands

Get exclusive access to NordPass’ best offer here: https://www.nordpass.com/atlaspronord Or, use code "atlaspronord" at the checkout to get additional 1 month for FREE Today we revisit the topic of island biogeography to learn about some more isolated environments, each with their own collection of unique animals as a result. Support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on Twitter @theatlaspro Sources: *I actually couldn't post all my sources in the description (there's a 5000 character limit), so check out my twitter post to see them all! https://www.total-croatia-news.com/made-in-croatia/50435-dinaric-karst-caves https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/411560-the-ancient-roots-of-dinarides-cave-dwelling-spiders https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.910084/full https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-2854-0_18 https://dantheclamman.blog/2021/05/11/gollum-clams/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335700931_A_new_species_of_Alpioniscus_Illyrionethes_from_the_Dinaric_Karst_Isopoda_Oniscidea_Trichoniscidae https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/37509/download/pdf/ https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/187/3/539/5555552 https://www.total-croatia-news.com/made-in-croatia/50435-dinaric-karst-caves https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-zoology/article/abs/biology-and-anatomy-of-the-living-fossil-congeria-kusceri-bivalvia-dreissenidae-from-subterranean-rivers-and-caves-in-the-dinaric-karst-of-the-former-yugoslavia/12B151826A6C96756AFB7081979439BE https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333223389_Taxonomic_status_and_behavioural_documentation_of_the_troglobiont_Lithobius_matulici_Myriapoda_Chilopoda_from_the_Dinaric_Alps_Are_there_semiaquatic_centipedes_in_caves https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152884 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31160877/ https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/411560-the-ancient-roots-of-dinarides-cave-dwelling-spiders https://aca.pensoft.net/article/87717/ https://brill.com/view/journals/btd/64/1/article-p33_2.xml https://prezi.com/g5upba7wautb/the-ecology-of-mammoth-cave-national-park/ https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/aquatic-ecosystems-natural/aquifers-caves/caves/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/50889673_Bat_hibernacula_in_a_cave-rich_landscape_of_the_northern_Dinaric_karst_Slovenia https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-annual-integrated-chlorophyll-concentration-high-values-are-indicated-in-green_fig1_234158999 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/46447/world-whale-day-biggest-little-pygmy/ https://animalia.bio/pygmy-blue-whale https://fwcs.oregonstate.edu/150-species/pygmy-blue-whale https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88062-5 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989422000567 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mms.12876 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-AXV-6FIwo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpfVmP0hJ4 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2907.2007.00106.x https://wwhandbook.iwc.int/en/species/blue-whale https://wwfwhales.org/news-stories/protecting-blue-corridors-report https://web.archive.org/web/20070614101326/http://www.wildwhales.org/cetaceans/blue/sr_blue_whale_e.pdf.pdf https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jzo.12760 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/47436/what-found-when-visited-saya-de-malha-bank/ http://charlie-gibbs.org/sites/all/themes/motion/pdf/Saya_de_Malha_Banks.pdf https://chm.cbd.int/database/record?documentID=204017 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/nov/22/physicalsciences.highereducation https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-pygmy-blue-whale-population-in-the-Indian-Ocean-redrawn-from-1-and_fig1_305151882 https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3820 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320702001660?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006320794903298?via%3Dihub https://www.nathab.com/know-before-you-go/african-safaris/madagascar/wildlife-guide/chameleons-geckos/ https://www.pbs.org/edens/madagascar/creature3.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844282/ http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Brookesia&species=exarmata https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/what-madagascars-tiny-chameleons-frogs-reveal-about-evolution-of-miniaturised-animals-9480931.html https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-northern-Madagascar-showing-distribution-of-species-of-the-Brookesia-minima-group_fig11_221845455 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/4616/madagascars-chameleons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madagascar_Topography.png https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/11250009609356129 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031314