Chernobyl's Radioactive Wild Boar Paradox

Radroaches ❌ Radboars ✅

Well, we maybe don't have to worry about mutant boars, but we do still have to worry about radioactive mutant mushrooms.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the largest unofficial nature reserve in Europe. It's really thriving with wildlife.

It's more complex because one of the reasons pigs turn over the soil is because of their desire for nutrient rich foods which include worms, and Cicadas that in their own turn consume organic matter that acts as Cation accumulators which bond to high charge atoms, and can work the soil to some depth following the movement of the radioactive elements. It's not just nuts, and acorns in a pigs diet as you can see with a plow for a nose along with a thickly muscled hinged neck working from those powerful shoulders.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term "mushroom cloud"...

"Boars don't defy the laws of physics" ... I can't be the only one who's kind of disappointed right? Even if it would have greatly increased the likelihood we would one day see pigs fly.

He is right. I did mushrooms once and I felt radiocative too.

Did a day tour of Chernobyl in 2019. Very cool. And very interesting to know about this. They were very strict about no food or drink during the tour, for fear you would ingest radioactive dust you picked up. In the end, they explained that the dosimeter I wore showed I had absorbed about the same amount of radiation as I would in a flight from New York to London.

I didn't guess shrooms, but immediately thought, "boars DIG."

Boar are bastards, but the speckled light brown piglets are too cute

Fun Fact: The old source of well water for Surrey, BC Canada actually comes underground from Mt. Baker, and takes decades to get to Canada. Engineers I met there (gathering water) told me that it tests clean for Sesium (almost all the worlds water will show some sesium) but this water is so old it pre-dates Atomic testing!! So clean, clean.

Does radioactive contamination hurt the boars? Do they have shortened lives? Are they feeble minded? Any physical deformities?

How cool; As soon as you mentioned boars being more radioactive than the other animals, my mind went straight to "they're eating it out of the soil when the hunt fungus!"... Such an ego boost to know that's exactly whats going on!!

"Found right under our noses" ❌ found right under boars snout ✅

Good for you looks like you're coming along well after your illness glad to see you're back

Certified Radon Testing and Installation technician here. So cool when it's something I already understand!

Some of those mushrooms are not only bringing the cesium up little by little, they are conzentrating it. That way wild boars have always (since the 50ies) been much more radioactive than deer in any place, so radioactive after 1986 that they - together with the mushrooms - were banned from human consumption in some places here in Austria, while other animals like hare or deer were not.

"Radiation obviously isn't great for your health" Says a man who knows such from experience xD

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