Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl

The wilderness is encroaching over abandoned towns in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment: "Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels. But Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a biologist who studies barn swallows at Chernobyl, says that while wild animals have settled in the area, they have struggled to build new populations."

Comments

Wild animals?

[drgonzo59]

wild animals have settled in the area, they have struggled to build new populations

It's hard to attract females when you have 2 beaks, 3 hooves and only 1 eye.

Re:Wild animals?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is /. breasts and a skirt will do.

Re:Wild animals?

[Trigun]

And for the women of slashdot, those attributes listed in the GP would be a step up.

Re:Wild animals?

[corifornia]

Interesting, the fat guy in the cubicle next to me meets that description...

Re:Wild animals?

[Anonymous Coward]

>And for the women of slashdot, those attributes listed in the GP would be a step up.
OMG! The idea of a swimsuit calendar "The Women of Slashdot" has just created a singularity of desire and confusion in my mind!

Case in point

[packetmon]

Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage. ... Then we have... Others say animals may be filtering into the zone, but they appear to suffer malformations and other ills.. Inference: She saw what she thought was a pack of wolves when in fact it was a three headed wolf.

Great!

[spungo]

Finally a town I can look normal in!

Movies

[Lovedumplingx]

If movies have taught me anything it's that this is the start of the downfall of man.

In a few years we'll be herded into wooden pens by mounted apes and then experimented on.

Oh the folly of it all!!!

Photos

[suv4x4]

Any photos of giant insects or ninja turtles? At least maybe a cross between a spider and a man?

Damn. Radiation in real life is BORING.

Re:Same as in Bikini

[Dystopian Rebel]

Bombing and radiation is better for wildlife than sub divisions. At last a solution for California that we can all accept.

Re:Isn't this really, really old?

[doombringerltx]

FTFA:

The return of wildlife to the region near the world's worst nuclear power accident, first reported more than a decade ago, is an apparent paradox that biologists are still trying to measure and understand. Its just checking back on it. Like those those VH1 "Where are they now?" shows. One looks at Vanilla Ice's career today, this looks at Chernobyl. Pretty similar disasters

Re:Returning only now?

[mcmonkey]

yes, one generation was screwed up with cancers and freaks but the next generations seem to have overcome that.

Just like we overcame being children of the baby boomers. Neat.

Re:Insect

[Chris Burke]

Thus the joke about the cockroach being the next master of earth in case the A,H and other 1 letter bomb start to fall ?

The F-bomb?