The Animals of Chernobyl | The New York Times

I want my three-eyed fish!

Can't imagine if another war involving nuclear bombs was to break out !
Guys and Gals, let's vote for a peace talk on Ukraine war !
Let's vote against the leader who is provoking the Sino Taiwan tension !
Whoever wins the war is immaterial, compared to destruction to our beautiful Mother Earth

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These bugs been haunting me.

So, if a spider from chernobyl bites you maybe

Don’t let the uranium bug bite ☢️☣️

As a spider myself, i find it very offensive for my fellow spider who was having breakfast in his net and this dude showed out of nowhere and started blasting his home with water!

radioactive animals

Update

Very Informative!

What were the red bugs

So there's no bandits and mutants? My disappointment is imeassurable and my day is ruined.

50.000 people use to live here now it's a ghost town

Strange, the nuclear power plant was in the city of Pripyet; however, the name of the city of Chernobyl is always synonymous with nuclear accident

У нас таких жучков называют ,,пожарники"

Dear NEW YORK TIMES-
Each of you working for that shell of a company will soon be: jobless, homeless and NOT nearly enough people are going to actually give a 💩 about ANY of you shtheads! Zombie f-tarded shtfkers!!!

Pure BS

Can we use some logic?
Why would trees change color all at the same time due to Chernobyl? Radiation causes random genetic mutations. That's like everyone in a city playing the lotto, picking random numbers, and coincidentally they all won, but just in that city. The fact that there are no humans in the region will change biology of the animals. There's also no cars, no foods with artificial preservatives, human-dependent rodents, etc. Small animals also have a much lower time envelope to obtain cancers from radiation due to shorter lifespans. Chernobyl radiation levels are in the low 10s of microsieverts/hr in the worst areas outside the reactor. Most areas are under 1 microsievert/hr. In order to add 5% increase in cancer in much larger mass humans by the time they are decades older, you would need to be exposed to those levels (staying in that hot spot like a jail cell) for 100,000 hours, or 11 years. If we're wandering in the general area, it's more like 110 years. But apparently birds are managing to get cancer in a few short years as if the radiation level is 1000x more than what is being measured.

I've seen these red scull bugs in the UK before, in fact my back garden at the time!

the core blew up

Fire bugs? They have unique striping all over the world.. nothing to do with radiation

I saw a combat footage showing mutant humans rip a Russian soldier apart. The video is “SHOCK CHERNOBYL disaster-mutants. I’m not sure if that’s real or not but check it for yourself.

this dude must glow in the dark

can we realize clear international air 1 in logos is c.i.a if it without justice bed peace 1 in logos first to every mama/first growth of economy? clear in zoon alogos to be aclear only.

Those ones in the thumbnail have made it to VA somehow

This animal lives

He himself is a test subject.

Is it even safe to visit Prypyat without wearing a hazmat suit?

The fact that they're not wearing any suits or masks makes me so nervous

For some reason seeing that he and I use the same spray bottle gave me a small amount of genuine happiness.

Mushrooms absorb radiation, good for remediation if collected dried and properly processed.

The fallout devs took it too far💀

Why can’t they leave animals alone!?

The plants seem to survive well in high radiation.

4.6 roentgen not too little not too much

This is the closest we’ll probably get to a real apocalypse. unless something else happens in the future…

I'm literally almost 6,000 (5,766) miles from Fukushima and we have the same little firebugs with the same blotchy black spots and messed up patterns 🤔🤔🤔🤔 I guess it's possible some radiation bugs got transported here but I highly doubt it and I'm going to say those blotchy spots are from a different cause than radiation unless Alabama has high radiation also hahaha... Now that I think about it there may really be radiation here from all of the military exercises and all of the chemicals being made for Redstone arsenal over here outside of Huntsville AL... Who knows , but, I do know those firebugs with the messed up patterns aren't just in Chernobyl..

100% of the species who have died from radioactivity have disappeared and 100% of the species who survived, well, adapted.
Can I have a grant now, the same as the gentleman in video pretty please?
I promise to spread the nuclear phobia as much as requested.

they always show the abandoned ferris wheel.

Cool video.

My left ear enjoyed this video

churning

Russians made that human testing this year at there. They digged earth very wrong spots. Not that scientific way to learn how it happened to these soldiers, but yes it was effective. Correlated how things go when they clean and packed that place at 86. I don't know how many of soldiers are still live anyway, because of war, but I believe that not so huge number, so this didn't effect their life's very much. But shown clearly how bad idea it was go there with tanks etc.. something made it even tragicomedy. Soldiers fight for to get cccp back (some their leaders think that way), guys didn't understand where they were, that same reactor was one reason that backed and falled soviet union, as said.. So boys, it was educational tript to Pripyat.

Why aren’t they wearing protective gear?

The tree rings are not only a different color. They are much closer together, meanings it didn't grow as fast, or its size didn't change as much after 1986.

Plz wear anti-radiation mask next time if you are going to Chernobyl.

touching everything with your bare hands is a great idea.

am i the only one hoping for a weird mutated horror show of an animal?