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> It's well established that island populations of animals trend physically smaller. Big animals trend smaller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism
by mkl 3y ago
> It's well established that island populations of animals trend physically smaller.
Big animals trend smaller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism), and small animals trend bigger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism). Hence the giant rabbits on Menorca that these goats outcompeted when the islands were connected (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuralagus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuralagus).