Alien Biospheres: Part 11 - Islands

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"Kalimba Relaxation Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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IMAGE CREDIT:
Tenerife giant rat – m0rph
New Caledonian giant gecko – hectonichus
Floating vegetation – D. Croft
Lynx – Michael Zahra
Snowshoe hare – Walter Siegmund
Lynx and Hare Population Fluctuations – Community Ecology by OpenStax  
Giant Weta – Dinobass
Anisodon – DiBgd
Therizinosaurus – Nobu Tamura
Therizinosaurus arm diagram – Paleoneolitic
Fishing bat – chiroptera.fr (Chiroblog)
Sylvornis – Trevor H. Worthy,Miyess Mitri,Warren D. Handley,Michael S. Y. Lee,Atholl Anderson,Christophe Sand
Flightless cormorant – Putneymark
Diving gannet – Mike Pennington
Brown Pelican – William H. Majoros
Cormorant – Shanin Abasov
Pygoscelis papua – Ken Funakoshi
Albatross – Liam Quinn  
Galapagos penguin – Andrew Skujins
Harbor seal – Wordless symbol
Primary succession – Succession, University of Wisconsin
Climax Community – OpenStax
Polystichum munitum – Jami Dwyer
Kalapana – Brocken Inaglory
Abies lasiocarpa – Walter Siegmund
Ring-tailed lemur – Sannse
Fligthless cormorant – Charles J. Sharp
Nuralagus – Goyo Arriaga


0:00 Campfire
1:07 Intro
3:22 Isla Proxima
5:06 Insular dwarfism
6:58 Insular gigantism
11:05 Drift fruit
14:06 Rafting
18:41 Adaptive radiation
21:57 Invasive species
23:28 Knuckle-walking
25:35 Feeding claws
27:55 Sea ice
30:24 Flightless swimmers
35:15 Succession
39:59 Flightless herbivores
42:49 Flightless predators
43:30 Summary