Eh, I say let's see where those 'shrooms are going with this. There's also apparently some fungi that produce energy using radiation, like plants do with sunlight? This is going to be interesting!
@@birdbird5337 Was gonna say we already have those inside the sarcophagus. Seems like a lot of species get pushed towards melanism in close vicinity to the source.
@@Louis-kw6yk Don't know if that's much more than a hypothesis and only for that specific strain of fungus. Black Frogs aren't about to photosynthesise.
Half the wild boars in Bavaria cannot be sold due to excessive radioactivity from Chernobyl, just as the wild forest mushrooms collected from the same forests and that those boars eat.
😮The frog paradox applies, if a frog jumps half way to a pond then half way next jump, how long till it gets to the pond? Same thing for half-lives , it is never safe again.
@@kengillett3042 Good analogy. But in the case of radioactive contamination of food, the levels don‘t actually need to get to 0, but only below a certain threshold to make the food safe to consume. Using your analogy, the frog doesn‘t need to reach the pond (which he never will, obviously), he only needs to get close enough.
@@ChrisMichael-p9w I couldn‘t believe it either. But a quick google search turned up two news articles from 2023 (one by Süddeutsche Zeitung, one by BR24) that confirmed that wild mushrooms and wild boar meat from southern Bavaria are still partly too contaminated to consume.
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.
Took me about 5 seconds to guess the shrooms. Here in Germany it's well known that some types of mushrooms are still contaminated so it wasn't too hard to guess really. Kinda funny how it took them that long to come up with the idea. Between boars literally digging stuff up from the ground and mushrooms accumulating radioactive fallout it seems kinda inevitable.
Absolutely. Year after year, aside from nuclear radioactive decay, the ground surface is covered by a new layer of plant material, which becomes humus. Only plants and animals that dig into that shallow humus layer will receive very much of a radionuclide dose.
No the readiation is not sufficently high to get a significant increase in birth defect. And the bore life span is to short that any cancer would have a significant effect on the population. The radiation is also to low for pretty much any other health problem. And we talk 2 to 3 orders of magnitude to low.
@@matsv201 Rather yes, but not high enough to make that defects dominantly present in all surviving population. Nobody really counts, but their growth rate is way lower than in other natural reservations zones even considering unlike in those reservations Chernobyl boars are less susceptible to become poacher's hunt, what the most obviously can be translated to birth defects incompatible with life. Or mortal radiation exposure, its rarer but there are several places where wild animal can easily get lethal dose. You speak about general ambient radiation there, but if you watched this vid, boars keep the same amount of radiation as they had immediately after catastrophe. (Well, at least post sarcophagus was build and active decontamination measures were applied totally, bcs before that nobody cared about monitoring and study wild animals here, they were rather slayed on spot immediately to prevent contamination spreading). Another difficulty in calculation, population is rather stable there, bcs surplus of population tends to simply leave the area for nearby forests, while potential decay of population is covered by migration from aforementioned forests. And nobody really do enough high scale research to catch and tag every boar here. So what I'm saying got from very scarce observance of several boar families.
@@antonzhdanov9653 You need a lot of radiation for it to be really dangerous. There is no place in the open air around Chernobyl that the radiation is so high that it will result in acute danger regardless how long you spend there. And the bores hardly just stay put. So the actually radiation is far lower. And any animal that have a normal lifespan of less than 15 years, cancer is pretty much irrelevant. (at least for large animals)
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!!
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.
@@09conrado probably be hard to tell in a big, wild population like that. If they WERE getting radiation poisoning or cancer they’d be dying in pretty large numbers. Humans are REALLY susceptible to the harmful effects of radiation, more than other animals, so an area being unlivable for us doesn’t mean it’s unlivable at all. Then again humans have an obsession with living as long as possible; wild animals typically only live a few years, anyway, so they could just be dying before the radiation becomes a problem.
Rather like the radioactive contamination in coconut crabs, certain wells, and much of the fruits (coconuts, breadfruit, bananas, etc.) on Bikini Atoll that are still radioactive enough to be a critical health hazard to those from the island who are still being impacted by radiation on the Marshall Islands where the people moved.
@@09conrado Well if boars follow the trend of other animals that have been subjected to high rad levels, they adapt over the generations. Especially with mice (who have a lot of generations in a short amount of time) it has been shown, that the mice of Tschernobyl have a much higher radiation tolerance (including their DNA) than regular mice. And it seems to be a rather quick process.
@VisonsofFalseTruths my wife and I had a pet boar. When we took him fir a walk people would ask "How long di they live?" I answered "We don't know. No pig has ever died of old age."
There was also a study of a certain species of catfish in the cooling pond many years ago. They expected them to be smaller than uncontaminated fish. They were actually quite a bit larger on average, but were otherwise normal. It was on an episode of "River Monsters" in 2013. I'm sure by now they've solved that mystery as well - perhaps the influx of deceased animals in the years after the disaster was extra food for many of them, as catfish have a voracious appetite as it is.
@@LilliD3 Yeah, iirc that was the conclusion in the end, the catfish weren't huge because of the exposure to radiation, their species is just capable of getting really large if you let it.
That was my first thought honestly. Probably the biggest part. My grandfather knew of a secret place to grab for big catfish and kept it a secret for a reason
Those were Wels catfish. The ones in the cooling pond were perfectly normal, probably fat because people fed them all the time. The channels have been dammed off from the pond, so they're just concrete ditches now. The pond has been allowed to drain and is mostly a marsh now. The big fish aren't seen near the plant anymore, and might not exist in the pond at all.
There is so much new in that that already in 2012 in Germany it was established that wild boars can be contaminated due to eating mushrooms and each year a good number of them was hunted in the Thüringian forests and deposited...
5:17 "The wild boar paradox only _appears_ to be a paradox because a crucial piece of information was being left out." This is literally true of all paradoxes though lol
"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.
The complexity of ecosystems and their interplay with contaminants is remarkable. It's interesting to see how the role of mushrooms in absorbing and circulating radiation was illuminated here. Truly drives home the point that to fully understand such phenomena, every aspect of the environment must be considered.
And it also suggests that when people talk about "settled science," they're generally jumping the shark. There's always some overlooked variable, some stone unturned.
"Found right under boar's snout" "Найден под мордой кабана" In some area, this mean to find dead body. Do not look for boar. Or you will be found under boar's snout.
I have a battery radio from the 70s. . It stopped working two decades ago. But by accident I place of radioactive mushroom on it and suddenly, my radio became active again.
i have an old radio that use transistors lamps and it detect wifi and mobile radaitiuon, before my iphone starts a call , th radios starts busing and makins strnage nosies , i can lsiten police and firemna talking between them.when radio is on and in a certain frequency
And yes, i think he wud still say that radiation isnt grt for your health; as the radiation therapy was very bad for his health even if it was also very bad for the health of his cancer
@@SylviaRustyFae Perfectly stated. Rad-Therapy isnt healthy for anything, we just use it hoping that it kills the cancer before it kills the patient. Its kinda the ultimate in "Kill or Cure" methodology.
@Patrick-nodak Its kinda a grab bag there, and as someone with wavy hair; i like wavy hair more than curly hair Also, my hair goes down more than halfway past my back; it took almost 3 yrs to reach that, and id be rly sad, think Greg from Steven Universe Future, if i lost my long hair... Even if itll grow back in a few yrs, let alone if its gonna grow back different and may be even less like i envision my hair bein
At university, I attended a workshop where we assessed the 137Cs content in wild mushrooms from Eastern Poland. We found some, but to reach 1 mSv-the legal radioactive dose for the general population, which is about half of the yearly natural dose-you would need to eat around 1 kilogram of dried mushrooms. Such a radioactive dose is completely harmless; however, your liver is likely to suffer due to other toxins in edible mushrooms at that level.
Why haven't we intentionally used mushrooms to clean up radiation? If they absorb the radioactive particals then wouldn't it just be a matter of cleaning up a bunch of radioactive mushrooms and properly disposing of them instead of dealing with the tiny particals ourselves or waiting for a long _long_ time for the radiation to clear?
Reminds me of the poisonous contaminant they found in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream… I don’t remember what it was but you’d have to eat something like 10,000 pints of it in a day to die from the contaminant, whereas the sucrose (sugar) in the same ice cream is lethal after just 30 pints haha.
@@Echo_the_half_glitch Its generally considered better to just bury the radiation inderground and let it decay. As long as the ground water is kept away from the contaminants its only a matter of time untill the area is safe. Mushrooms digging up stuff from deep underground is a big problem with this standard of 'bury your problems and everything will be ok"
@@Echo_the_half_glitch the mushroom web will take years to form itself in new places and where would you dispose of the collected mushroom? yet underground?
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.
All right!! "Many animals eat cicadas, including birds, mammals, insects, and other predators:" Same for worms. You are saying that, 'Mycelial webs drinking up contaminated water from deeper in the earth' do not 'act as Cation accumulators which bonding to high charge atoms?' I understand. Nothing to see here! Move along people!!😉Good day.
@@jollyjokress3852 While what you are saying might be true, the pig roots almost exclusively for its source of food where other animals only eat "soil fauna" when there isn't anything else to eat, or on occasion. Also I would imagine a herd of feral swine could till an acre of land a day disturbing vast areas where the fallout settled and sunk into the soil. How many of YOUR "soil fauna eating" friends can boast about that?
To my knowledge in parts of Bavaria, Germany, where much of tchnernobyl radiation rained out, it is still advised not to eat locally harvested mushrooms.
And more so, all wild boar has to be checked for radiation, as they eat so many mushrooms. So wild boar is actually way more problematic than the mushrooms. I am a bit surprised that the contamination via mushrooms should be a suprise to anyone, as it is so well known in Bavaria.
@@AdrianBoyko You can eat mushrooms from Bavarian forests, but the recommendation is, not to eat too many from them. We are talking about mushrooms coming from forests, so the only people who "harvest" them are private people collecting them for their private usage. We are not talking about a commercial enterprise. The mushrooms you buy in grocery stores come from mushroom farms.
Love the show. No one explained the laws of physics to the boars: that's why they keep breaking them. But seriously: I wonder how the radiation have affected those boars.
we have the same thing happening in Sweden, around the area of forsmark (power plant) where they first detected the fallout from chernobyl. to this day, boars in the middle of sweden contain higher levels of radiation and is not to be consumed.
I'm pretty sure that boar hunted in Germany have to be tested for radiation as well before they can be consumed. Don't know where that specific radiation is coming from though
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.
@@ReallyBigBadAndy76 The fear is a good thing, the threshold of using nuclear weapons stays higher because of that fear. Also radiation can be a slow killer. One can die of radiation induced cancer many years after being exposed or ingested fallout particles.
@@DancerGirl-24 Dosimeters are very easy to pickup and accumulate, We have tons where I work. They hand them out like candy. I, however, have no interest in their accumulation.😉
TLDR; The answer to this mystery is that the boars root around in the dirt and eat all sorts of radiated mushrooms. They picked up extra radiation from Russian weapons tests decades prior.
Back in ‘05 funguru Paul Stamets published “Mycelium Running,” including a table of concentrations of substances such as lead, mercury and cesium for various mushroom species. Kept me from eating morels that popped up in my lead-contaminated backyard. Too bad radiation researchers didn’t take similar note.
@@Echo_the_half_glitch The entire town of East Helena, MT is a Superfund site and all the homes had the top 6 inches of soil in their yards removed due to a lead smelter that was open for 100 years. No doubt his story is similar.
@@Echo_the_half_glitch lead contamination is common in residential soils. It can come from old lead paint that was on a pre-1978 built home in the USA (usually right along the dripline of the house), or spills of leaded gasoline in the past, such as where someone did engine work in the yard, or nearby industry like battery plants and other lead products. Chattanooga, Tennessee in particular has whole neighborhoods that had lead contaminated waste sand from foundries dumped on them before the subdivisions were even built, now they're superfund sites. Old apple orchards often had lead arsenate sprayed on them as a pesticide. Lead remains in the soil more or less indefinitely unless someone digs it up and replaces it.
We have known about radioactive caesium contamination in mushrooms for a long time. The advice to not eat mushrooms across a wide swathe of Eastern and Central Europe because of 137Cs contamination went out very soon after the Chernobyl incident in 1986. Where do you think Stamets got the idea from?
Wow. Yes! I wonder about mushrooms grown in plastic bins too, how much more of those plastic toxins are in the mushrooms. It’s just crazy to think of the mycelium network taking up toxins deep in the soil. Fascinating and frightening.
The moment he said radioactive elements filtered down too deep for most living things to reach, I knew it was going to be the freaking mushrooms. Damn those tasty eldritch entities.
I'm a bit confused. When I heard the first few seconds of this video, my immediate first thought was: 'well it must have to do with their diet then, since they're the only ones this is affecting'. I'd have loved to hear some explanation why this would have taken so long to find out, then, because surely this "wild boar paradox" would immediately have been linked to a correlating "wild mushroom paradox" then, if you'd take a look at the boars' diets, meaning the mystery would have been solved much quicker. Surely, I can't be the only one who'd be thinking to look at an animal's diet, to figure out why their contamination levels are higher?
@@rolfs2165yeah, everyone around here knows to not pick mushrooms because they are the most contaminated by far. and i’m sure everyone knows wild boars love mushrooms? like that’s the first thing i thought when i saw the video pop up, how in the world was this ever a paradox?
Suspecting it is one thing. Proving it is another. In this case the obvious answer of "Chernobyl" was wrong. It was actually the weapons testing that did it. Researchers correctly ruled out Chernobyl's contamination and then were puzzled. It was presented weird to make it simple and interesting.
> There is consensus that a total of approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades since, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer.
Great video! From what you're saying, it doesn't seem that it was ever a paradox, just a mystery. Is there maybe some explanation for the terminology used?
Fascinating and interesting story, well presented, succinct and to the point, with no gimmicks. Given they boars are full of radioactivity are they showing signs of contamination? Birth defects, cancers? shorter lifespans, size? Health issues? behavioural changes, societal changes, other than being given free roaming status and not being interefered with by humans, that is. I have now subscribed.
That's so odd to me...we've been aware for an eternity about our own radioactive boars. The Chernobyl rainclouds decided to relieve themselves right over my city and my dad was always explaining to me why and how we scan all boars hunted in our area to see if their levels are too high for human consumption. We also knew it stemed from their diet of mushrooms. Is this really a new finding in Chernobyl itself??
No, it's not a new finding. You're right the video is just kind of misleading since the mushroom thing is not a mystery. The research is about applying a newer method to better characterize how much contamination came from Chernobyl versus weapons testing.
@@Edsploration. Thank you for the clarification! That makes sense :D Pretty sad that even educational content tends to go for clickbaty titles and arguments because they don't earn enough otherwise.
Interesting! Be especially great if you guys could do a video about the effects of the radiation on these animals, how they differ from 'normal' animals.
I've seen other videos about how other animals have traits that help prevent them from developing cancers. I'm surprised they didn't at least mention it here.
@@amosmoses5630 true, but seeing the effect that extreme concentrations of radiation for that many generations would be interesting. Also, anyone that hasn't seen those videos might be wondering how they didn't end up with mutations or cancer or, put a different way, how they've survived. Just talking about them having high levels of radiation leads to that question.
Got some bad news about the life expectancy of many of the animals in the exclusion zone. Most of them have not developed traits that prevent them from getting cancer, they just die from it after they have reproduced
I'm so proud that I managed to guess the cause instantly. Although the guess was based on incomplete reasoning. I knew that boars liked eating mushrooms because of truffle pigs. And I knew that some mushrooms collect radiation. So I assumed that the extra radiation came from mushrooms, but I didn't consider the nukes and the groundwater
In Texas they have helicopter boar hunting trips in some places 🐗 People pay a little money and fly around in a helicopter shooting and killing boars. They are that big of a problem in some places.
@@Echo_the_half_glitchwell, kind of. They might help be able to dilute the radiation because they'll concentrate the material in their flesh, which can then get blown away by the wind or eaten so that the hazardous material gets carried far away. But they don't actually do anything to change the total amount of radiation. Only time can do that.
Very interesting video. Since the whole of Europe suffered some contamination to a greater or lesser degree, I wonder if a similar effect may be noticed in say France , albeit at a much lower scale - Pigs are used by truffle hunters along with dogs , but unlike dogs the pigs often eat the truffles before the hunter can get to them 😂 , a study of those pigs might reveal similar results, unless the number of pigs might be too small a sample or the difference might be too small to be a definitive result.
Boy, I wish there were a 25-second version of most of this channel's videos. "Boars are well-known to love fungi as a food source, and the fungi in the area pull water from deep in the water table, where radioactive cesium from weapons testing still lingers."
"[...]that radioactive contamination is decreasing in just about every living thing, except for one species" 2? boars and mushrooms? if it is because of the mushrooms than you would expect the same levels there.
Well the mushrooms are taking up the older radioactive isotopes and stealing it through its mycelial web. The video didn't say if the fruiting bodies had stronger concentrations but that wouldn't matter much. Every mushroom the boars eat is another dose and when they eat hundreds and thousands of mushroom the isotopes get concentrated. That is why herbivores have stronger levels than plants, omnivores and carnivores have even greater amounts. As things travel to the top of the food web the more concentrated the amount of radiation.
I actually heard this explained on the radio in around 2017. (I don't recall if they specifically mentioned Tschernobyl, but it was about wild boar meat from Germany and Austria containing radiation and about mushrooms.)
The TMNT's are popular because turtles are cute, and the creator decided to give them very laid-back and relatable personalities. No one would ever think that feral pigs are "cute", and they are in no way laid-back or relatable. So I don't think we will have to worry about seeing Teeanage Mutant Ninja Boars added to Saturday morning cartoons, at least not anytime soon.
Right?! Seriously both my sister and I said "What are they eating that other animals aren't." Then I said it has to have something to do with their rooting behavior. How the hell did it take trained professionals this long to figure it out? Or was it more of a confirmation thing?
Important to find out rafiation long-terem effects in fast reproductive species. Like rats, mice, rabbits, etc. Are there significant genetic and body alterations or mutations after years of reproductive cyles? Is their evolution different, vis-a-vis identical animals living in other parts of the world, not affected by the Chernobyl tragedy?
That was fascinating. It was very likely to be something the boars were eating; that was the immediately obvious conclusion. But that boars loved mushrooms, that was completely new information for me and probably for many of us who have never even seen a wild boar.
30 people died in the explosion and 30 more people have died as a result of Chernobyl since then. Some scientists say the number of people who developcancer as a resultcould reach into the thousands, but you must take this number with a grain of salt because of activist environmental scientists who simply hate nuclear energy.
Much more people died because of the disaster. Thousands. USSR has never collected true numbers, even never been interested in it. They havent tracked any cancer problems that liquidators approached after leaving Chernobyl.
The increase in miscarriages throughout Europe ie missing live births shows in the tens of thousands. For decades the nuclear industry has very much played down the total deaths
@HuplesCat you're lying, but for me I winder why. Solar panels are horrible for the environment and you want them more than nuclear, it makes no sense.
Very interesting, thank you so much. I wasn't aware the southern, part of Belarus was affected that bad neither. Crazy there's still people living in fact.
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the largest unofficial nature reserve in Europe. It's really thriving with wildlife.
the wildlife is still harmed by the fallout, but it turned out the humans are far more harmful than radioactive radiation.
@@stefs pretty wild
If this happened worldwide ...
Same with the DMZ between the Koreas. Get humans out the way and nature thrives, we dont need eco parks, we need human free areas.
@@bonchidudeBiden might make it happen. He's begging Russia.
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Well, we maybe don't have to worry about mutant boars, but we do still have to worry about radioactive mutant mushrooms.
Eh, I say let's see where those 'shrooms are going with this.
There's also apparently some fungi that produce energy using radiation, like plants do with sunlight?
This is going to be interesting!
@@birdbird5337 Was gonna say we already have those inside the sarcophagus. Seems like a lot of species get pushed towards melanism in close vicinity to the source.
@@Todesnuss also using radiation as a energy source
@@Louis-kw6yk Don't know if that's much more than a hypothesis and only for that specific strain of fungus. Black Frogs aren't about to photosynthesise.
So we just changed from D&D Orcs to WH40K Orks
He is right. I did mushrooms once and I felt radiocative too.
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Yea there is a difference in theoretical Radioactive decay and actually witnessing the splendor of it happening in real time.
I have a similar problem with chilis
Don't plant Alfalfa around it. It's roots reach deep in the ground and bring it up subterranean minerals.
Half the wild boars in Bavaria cannot be sold due to excessive radioactivity from Chernobyl, just as the wild forest mushrooms collected from the same forests and that those boars eat.
Common sense??
source?
😮The frog paradox applies, if a frog jumps half way to a pond then half way next jump, how long till it gets to the pond? Same thing for half-lives , it is never safe again.
@@kengillett3042 Good analogy. But in the case of radioactive contamination of food, the levels don‘t actually need to get to 0, but only below a certain threshold to make the food safe to consume. Using your analogy, the frog doesn‘t need to reach the pond (which he never will, obviously), he only needs to get close enough.
@@ChrisMichael-p9w I couldn‘t believe it either. But a quick google search turned up two news articles from 2023 (one by Süddeutsche Zeitung, one by BR24) that confirmed that wild mushrooms and wild boar meat from southern Bavaria are still partly too contaminated to consume.
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.
You mean cesium (for Americans), otherwise caesium.
If you live closer to the fraser river though, you have to worry about mercury from the 1860's gold rush.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "mushroom cloud"...
Oh god yeah 😧
good one
Underrated comment
And also magic mushrooms. They give the boars a high ( radiation count ).
You spittin!
I didn't guess shrooms, but immediately thought, "boars DIG."
Very good guess
Took me about 5 seconds to guess the shrooms. Here in Germany it's well known that some types of mushrooms are still contaminated so it wasn't too hard to guess really. Kinda funny how it took them that long to come up with the idea. Between boars literally digging stuff up from the ground and mushrooms accumulating radioactive fallout it seems kinda inevitable.
Absolutely. Year after year, aside from nuclear radioactive decay, the ground surface is covered by a new layer of plant material, which becomes humus. Only plants and animals that dig into that shallow humus layer will receive very much of a radionuclide dose.
Exactly.
As the ruzzian soldiers digging trenches in the "Red Woods" near the Chernobyl plant, many of them sustained radiation burns and radiation sickness..
Does radioactive contamination hurt the boars? Do they have shortened lives? Are they feeble minded? Any physical deformities?
yes, that would be a much interesting video too!
No the readiation is not sufficently high to get a significant increase in birth defect.
And the bore life span is to short that any cancer would have a significant effect on the population.
The radiation is also to low for pretty much any other health problem.
And we talk 2 to 3 orders of magnitude to low.
@@matsv201 Rather yes, but not high enough to make that defects dominantly present in all surviving population. Nobody really counts, but their growth rate is way lower than in other natural reservations zones even considering unlike in those reservations Chernobyl boars are less susceptible to become poacher's hunt, what the most obviously can be translated to birth defects incompatible with life. Or mortal radiation exposure, its rarer but there are several places where wild animal can easily get lethal dose. You speak about general ambient radiation there, but if you watched this vid, boars keep the same amount of radiation as they had immediately after catastrophe. (Well, at least post sarcophagus was build and active decontamination measures were applied totally, bcs before that nobody cared about monitoring and study wild animals here, they were rather slayed on spot immediately to prevent contamination spreading). Another difficulty in calculation, population is rather stable there, bcs surplus of population tends to simply leave the area for nearby forests, while potential decay of population is covered by migration from aforementioned forests. And nobody really do enough high scale research to catch and tag every boar here. So what I'm saying got from very scarce observance of several boar families.
@@antonzhdanov9653 You need a lot of radiation for it to be really dangerous. There is no place in the open air around Chernobyl that the radiation is so high that it will result in acute danger regardless how long you spend there. And the bores hardly just stay put. So the actually radiation is far lower.
And any animal that have a normal lifespan of less than 15 years, cancer is pretty much irrelevant. (at least for large animals)
@@matsv201 Yeah, good luck enjoying 200R at vehicles graveyard or 700R at cemented waste barrels where even damn mold is not forming.
Has this guy not watched Princess Mononoke? Boars turning into demons is a recognised risk....
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!!
i thought they were sentient and intentionally hunting radiation to become boar-man!
@@DirectorOfTime Or ManBearPig?
Good one
Lol, exactly the same here - my mind went instantly to "must be mushrooms."
Nice catch, OP.
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.
And how are the boars doing? Are they ill or not?
@@09conrado probably be hard to tell in a big, wild population like that. If they WERE getting radiation poisoning or cancer they’d be dying in pretty large numbers. Humans are REALLY susceptible to the harmful effects of radiation, more than other animals, so an area being unlivable for us doesn’t mean it’s unlivable at all. Then again humans have an obsession with living as long as possible; wild animals typically only live a few years, anyway, so they could just be dying before the radiation becomes a problem.
Rather like the radioactive contamination in coconut crabs, certain wells, and much of the fruits (coconuts, breadfruit, bananas, etc.) on Bikini Atoll that are still radioactive enough to be a critical health hazard to those from the island who are still being impacted by radiation on the Marshall Islands where the people moved.
@@09conrado Well if boars follow the trend of other animals that have been subjected to high rad levels, they adapt over the generations. Especially with mice (who have a lot of generations in a short amount of time) it has been shown, that the mice of Tschernobyl have a much higher radiation tolerance (including their DNA) than regular mice. And it seems to be a rather quick process.
@VisonsofFalseTruths my wife and I had a pet boar. When we took him fir a walk people would ask "How long di they live?" I answered "We don't know. No pig has ever died of old age."
There was also a study of a certain species of catfish in the cooling pond many years ago. They expected them to be smaller than uncontaminated fish. They were actually quite a bit larger on average, but were otherwise normal. It was on an episode of "River Monsters" in 2013. I'm sure by now they've solved that mystery as well - perhaps the influx of deceased animals in the years after the disaster was extra food for many of them, as catfish have a voracious appetite as it is.
Probably combined with the fact they aren't getting fished by humans and therefore can grow bigger.
@@LilliD3 Yeah, iirc that was the conclusion in the end, the catfish weren't huge because of the exposure to radiation, their species is just capable of getting really large if you let it.
That was my first thought honestly. Probably the biggest part. My grandfather knew of a secret place to grab for big catfish and kept it a secret for a reason
Those were Wels catfish. The ones in the cooling pond were perfectly normal, probably fat because people fed them all the time. The channels have been dammed off from the pond, so they're just concrete ditches now. The pond has been allowed to drain and is mostly a marsh now. The big fish aren't seen near the plant anymore, and might not exist in the pond at all.
Theys pigs of the waters
There is so much new in that that already in 2012 in Germany it was established that wild boars can be contaminated due to eating mushrooms and each year a good number of them was hunted in the Thüringian forests and deposited...
5:17 "The wild boar paradox only _appears_ to be a paradox because a crucial piece of information was being left out." This is literally true of all paradoxes though lol
"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.
Porcine aviators will appear as soon as we detect an honest, politician: Think of Diogenes! 😂😂😂😂😂
I saw a police helicopter today. Does that count?
Spider-Pig
didnt they? i thought we had Swine Flu? ba dum tss. i’ll show myself out.
@@StoffelDilligas 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you win sir.
The complexity of ecosystems and their interplay with contaminants is remarkable. It's interesting to see how the role of mushrooms in absorbing and circulating radiation was illuminated here. Truly drives home the point that to fully understand such phenomena, every aspect of the environment must be considered.
And it also suggests that when people talk about "settled science," they're generally jumping the shark. There's always some overlooked variable, some stone unturned.
@@grizzlygrizzle 💯
When has people(and their "law"(unwritten rules or w/e) EVER been able to put anything in CONTEXT,
"Found right under our noses" ❌ found right under boars snout ✅
"Found right under boar's snout"
"Найден под мордой кабана"
In some area, this mean to find dead body.
Do not look for boar. Or you will be found under boar's snout.
truffles ?
The host measured his boyfriend's appendage and was thrilled with the number.
I have a battery radio from the 70s. . It stopped working two decades ago. But by accident I place of radioactive mushroom on it and suddenly, my radio became active again.
News:
Nuclear accidient in soviet union.
well they dont say it was in ukrania, because ukranian didnt exist in that time..
ukrania is a usa invention
i have an old radio that use transistors lamps and it detect wifi and mobile radaitiuon, before my iphone starts a call , th radios starts busing and makins strnage nosies , i can lsiten police and firemna talking between them.when radio is on and in a certain frequency
0:25 wild boar... he sus
"Radiation obviously isn't great for your health" Says a man who knows such from experience xD
And yes, i think he wud still say that radiation isnt grt for your health; as the radiation therapy was very bad for his health even if it was also very bad for the health of his cancer
@@SylviaRustyFae Perfectly stated. Rad-Therapy isnt healthy for anything, we just use it hoping that it kills the cancer before it kills the patient.
Its kinda the ultimate in "Kill or Cure" methodology.
A classic type of medicine is “kill the thing that’s killing you faster than it or the treatment is killing you”
@Patrick-nodak Its kinda a grab bag there, and as someone with wavy hair; i like wavy hair more than curly hair
Also, my hair goes down more than halfway past my back; it took almost 3 yrs to reach that, and id be rly sad, think Greg from Steven Universe Future, if i lost my long hair... Even if itll grow back in a few yrs, let alone if its gonna grow back different and may be even less like i envision my hair bein
@@SylviaRustyFae I hope you'll be able to love your hair and style it in a way that makes you feel good.
At university, I attended a workshop where we assessed the 137Cs content in wild mushrooms from Eastern Poland. We found some, but to reach 1 mSv-the legal radioactive dose for the general population, which is about half of the yearly natural dose-you would need to eat around 1 kilogram of dried mushrooms. Such a radioactive dose is completely harmless; however, your liver is likely to suffer due to other toxins in edible mushrooms at that level.
Like lead, or other nasty stuff shrooms likes to accumulate.
Why haven't we intentionally used mushrooms to clean up radiation? If they absorb the radioactive particals then wouldn't it just be a matter of cleaning up a bunch of radioactive mushrooms and properly disposing of them instead of dealing with the tiny particals ourselves or waiting for a long _long_ time for the radiation to clear?
Reminds me of the poisonous contaminant they found in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream… I don’t remember what it was but you’d have to eat something like 10,000 pints of it in a day to die from the contaminant, whereas the sucrose (sugar) in the same ice cream is lethal after just 30 pints haha.
@@Echo_the_half_glitch Its generally considered better to just bury the radiation inderground and let it decay. As long as the ground water is kept away from the contaminants its only a matter of time untill the area is safe. Mushrooms digging up stuff from deep underground is a big problem with this standard of 'bury your problems and everything will be ok"
@@Echo_the_half_glitch the mushroom web will take years to form itself in new places and where would you dispose of the collected mushroom? yet underground?
Boar are bastards, but the speckled light brown piglets are too cute
U just need to get a jetpack and u’ll be laughing
Yes. I agree. They are awfully cute. Then they grow up to be monsters which is not cool.
They're my friends because they make bacon. 🥓 🥓 🥓
They are beautiful smart animals in their natural habitat. They are just as invasive as us 😂
No animal is so invasive and devasting for the ecosystem as humans...
Impressive presentation, to the point and accessable
That was a terrific presentation. Very Clear. Thank you
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.
Cool it pig lover…some of us are kosher 😂
All right!! "Many animals eat cicadas, including birds, mammals, insects, and other predators:" Same for worms. You are saying that, 'Mycelial webs drinking up contaminated water from deeper in the earth' do not 'act as Cation accumulators which bonding to high charge atoms?' I understand. Nothing to see here! Move along people!!😉Good day.
Pigs are not the only animals that eat soil fauna.
@@jollyjokress3852 While what you are saying might be true, the pig roots almost exclusively for its source of food where other animals only eat "soil fauna" when there isn't anything else to eat, or on occasion. Also I would imagine a herd of feral swine could till an acre of land a day disturbing vast areas where the fallout settled and sunk into the soil. How many of YOUR "soil fauna eating" friends can boast about that?
Shovel Heads
To my knowledge in parts of Bavaria, Germany, where much of tchnernobyl radiation rained out, it is still advised not to eat locally harvested mushrooms.
Not only mushrooms any forest harvesting food .
Same in Switzerland
And more so, all wild boar has to be checked for radiation, as they eat so many mushrooms. So wild boar is actually way more problematic than the mushrooms. I am a bit surprised that the contamination via mushrooms should be a suprise to anyone, as it is so well known in Bavaria.
So, what do they do with the harvested mushrooms if they can’t eat them?
@@AdrianBoyko You can eat mushrooms from Bavarian forests, but the recommendation is, not to eat too many from them. We are talking about mushrooms coming from forests, so the only people who "harvest" them are private people collecting them for their private usage. We are not talking about a commercial enterprise. The mushrooms you buy in grocery stores come from mushroom farms.
You are bouncing back Hank and I'm happy to see it. One day at a time!! Thanks for the knowledge over the years
I already figured it out before you mentioned it, except the part about the previous nuclear contaminations.
Love the show. No one explained the laws of physics to the boars: that's why they keep breaking them. But seriously: I wonder how the radiation have affected those boars.
we have the same thing happening in Sweden, around the area of forsmark (power plant) where they first detected the fallout from chernobyl. to this day, boars in the middle of sweden contain higher levels of radiation and is not to be consumed.
Same in parts of the Czech Republic
that explains Bormin in Mutant Year Zero
I'm pretty sure that boar hunted in Germany have to be tested for radiation as well before they can be consumed. Don't know where that specific radiation is coming from though
so is there a mutant boar movie or is it too dangerous for government to let it slide?
@@seeschwalbe probably the same as the boars in chernobyl but at lower levels due to distance from ussr nuclear tests.
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.
We are far more hysterical about radiation than we need to be.
@@ReallyBigBadAndy76 The fear is a good thing, the threshold of using nuclear weapons stays higher because of that fear. Also radiation can be a slow killer. One can die of radiation induced cancer many years after being exposed or ingested fallout particles.
You were given a dosimeter for a reason - to show how easy it is to pick it up and how it accumulates.
@@DancerGirl-24 Dosimeters are very easy to pickup and accumulate, We have tons where I work. They hand them out like candy. I, however, have no interest in their accumulation.😉
@@ReallyBigBadAndy76 Not too much school ...is it .;-))?
Good for you looks like you're coming along well after your illness glad to see you're back
Nice! Finally some science we can trust because it was based on good, thorough research. Good presentation and very informative, thank you.
Finally? There’s good science every day
glow-in-the-dark bacon? I'm IN!
TLDR; The answer to this mystery is that the boars root around in the dirt and eat all sorts of radiated mushrooms. They picked up extra radiation from Russian weapons tests decades prior.
That seems so obvious why would this have puzzled a scientist? I thought they were smarter
i just was thinking "d i r t"
Not to forget: certain mushrooms are heavy metal hyper-accumulators.
@@BrianHurry Yeah, the first minute in the video as I was trying to puzzle out the answer my first thought was that it's because of mushrooms...
@@daimahou3951 The puzzling part was not the mushrooms. Its that the radiation came from somewhere that didn't have anything to do with chernobyl
One deer, two deer. One sheep, two sheep. One boar, two boar. With five eyes
One boar, two boars, 3.7 boars
One reply now two reply 😂.
Back in ‘05 funguru Paul Stamets published “Mycelium Running,” including a table of concentrations of substances such as lead, mercury and cesium for various mushroom species.
Kept me from eating morels that popped up in my lead-contaminated backyard. Too bad radiation researchers didn’t take similar note.
How did your backyard get contaminated with lead?
@@Echo_the_half_glitch The entire town of East Helena, MT is a Superfund site and all the homes had the top 6 inches of soil in their yards removed due to a lead smelter that was open for 100 years. No doubt his story is similar.
@@Echo_the_half_glitch lead contamination is common in residential soils. It can come from old lead paint that was on a pre-1978 built home in the USA (usually right along the dripline of the house), or spills of leaded gasoline in the past, such as where someone did engine work in the yard, or nearby industry like battery plants and other lead products. Chattanooga, Tennessee in particular has whole neighborhoods that had lead contaminated waste sand from foundries dumped on them before the subdivisions were even built, now they're superfund sites. Old apple orchards often had lead arsenate sprayed on them as a pesticide. Lead remains in the soil more or less indefinitely unless someone digs it up and replaces it.
@@Echo_the_half_glitch I wonder that too.
We have known about radioactive caesium contamination in mushrooms for a long time. The advice to not eat mushrooms across a wide swathe of Eastern and Central Europe because of 137Cs contamination went out very soon after the Chernobyl incident in 1986. Where do you think Stamets got the idea from?
This wonderfullu informative presentation convinced me to subscribe !
- Why is it impossible to pick mushrooms near Chernobyl? - Because they are scattering.
This is why it's important to know where your mushrooms are sourced from. Including those expensive truffles!
Most truffles exported are from Serbia or Italy.
Wow. Yes! I wonder about mushrooms grown in plastic bins too, how much more of those plastic toxins are in the mushrooms. It’s just crazy to think of the mycelium network taking up toxins deep in the soil. Fascinating and frightening.
The moment he said radioactive elements filtered down too deep for most living things to reach, I knew it was going to be the freaking mushrooms. Damn those tasty eldritch entities.
They still decay, however, even at depth
I'm a bit confused. When I heard the first few seconds of this video, my immediate first thought was: 'well it must have to do with their diet then, since they're the only ones this is affecting'. I'd have loved to hear some explanation why this would have taken so long to find out, then, because surely this "wild boar paradox" would immediately have been linked to a correlating "wild mushroom paradox" then, if you'd take a look at the boars' diets, meaning the mystery would have been solved much quicker.
Surely, I can't be the only one who'd be thinking to look at an animal's diet, to figure out why their contamination levels are higher?
Not to forget that it's still forbidden to pick mushrooms in a wide area around the exclusion zone, because they're still so radioactive.
@@rolfs2165yeah, everyone around here knows to not pick mushrooms because they are the most contaminated by far. and i’m sure everyone knows wild boars love mushrooms? like that’s the first thing i thought when i saw the video pop up, how in the world was this ever a paradox?
Thought the same thing... but most things are easier in hindsight--and when presented in a story which suggests this solution from the beginning.
@@Erik-pu4mj not the case here. the video title itself is enough to figure it out.
Suspecting it is one thing. Proving it is another. In this case the obvious answer of "Chernobyl" was wrong. It was actually the weapons testing that did it. Researchers correctly ruled out Chernobyl's contamination and then were puzzled.
It was presented weird to make it simple and interesting.
Thank you for the interesting way you explained the paradox.
Excellent video. Thanks.
Those baby wild boar photos were adorable!
CODY JOHNSTON???? The Chernobyl boars are here.
Yeah, someone needs to send this to him XD
Came here to talk about Cody and his Show-dy
He tried to warn us...
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. I used to read his Cracked articles.
@@ferretyluv he's now got his own legally distinct show, away from cracked, called some more news
I love the superposition between the SciShow and Some More News fandom
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@@Anankin12
8 video playlist about boars:
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I was looking for the comment about that. They are feeding on the radiation!
Cool information.
> There is consensus that a total of approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades since, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer.
as far as scishow videos go, this is one of my favorites. it's like watching a murder mystery movie but for science.
and no proofs
Fun fact: when radioactive boars hit 88 mph, they travel back in time, carrying their radioactive Cesium with them.😲
Without the help of the Flux Capacitor.
@@dukecity7688 They have lots of muscle and fat, so they ARE flux capacitors.
@@icollectstories5702 Yes! Right.
@davidwang4364 🧪
@davidwang4364 Why? Are you CHICKEN!
Cody's Showdy has been warning us about the board for years! Yet we have not headed his call! The boars are out there. They're ALWAYS out there.
Great video! From what you're saying, it doesn't seem that it was ever a paradox, just a mystery. Is there maybe some explanation for the terminology used?
Interesting, thanks.
Certified Radon Testing and Installation technician here. So cool when it's something I already understand!
Somebody call Cody and his Show-dy. People are FINALLY getting wise to the BOAR-POCALYPSE
when will people take the boar threat seriously!?
He will literally explode
This was our study! Thank you!!
Now I know if a wild boar is running at me, throw a mushroom!
Interesting , Thank You.
Fascinating and interesting story, well presented, succinct and to the point, with no gimmicks. Given they boars are full of radioactivity are they showing signs of contamination? Birth defects, cancers? shorter lifespans, size? Health issues? behavioural changes, societal changes, other than being given free roaming status and not being interefered with by humans, that is. I have now subscribed.
That's so odd to me...we've been aware for an eternity about our own radioactive boars. The Chernobyl rainclouds decided to relieve themselves right over my city and my dad was always explaining to me why and how we scan all boars hunted in our area to see if their levels are too high for human consumption. We also knew it stemed from their diet of mushrooms. Is this really a new finding in Chernobyl itself??
No, it's not a new finding. You're right the video is just kind of misleading since the mushroom thing is not a mystery. The research is about applying a newer method to better characterize how much contamination came from Chernobyl versus weapons testing.
@@Edsploration. Thank you for the clarification! That makes sense :D
Pretty sad that even educational content tends to go for clickbaty titles and arguments because they don't earn enough otherwise.
Interesting! Be especially great if you guys could do a video about the effects of the radiation on these animals, how they differ from 'normal' animals.
Yes, that was exactly my thought.
I've seen other videos about how other animals have traits that help prevent them from developing cancers. I'm surprised they didn't at least mention it here.
This video isn't about animals surviving radiation it's about the unexpected concentration of radiation due to fungi.
@@amosmoses5630 true, but seeing the effect that extreme concentrations of radiation for that many generations would be interesting. Also, anyone that hasn't seen those videos might be wondering how they didn't end up with mutations or cancer or, put a different way, how they've survived. Just talking about them having high levels of radiation leads to that question.
Got some bad news about the life expectancy of many of the animals in the exclusion zone. Most of them have not developed traits that prevent them from getting cancer, they just die from it after they have reproduced
I knew about the mushrooms, but so much new info! Thanks Hank!
Fascinating. Thanks.
Surprised not to see Dr. Mr. Cody Johnston in these comments
Not yet ...
Good hunting, STALKER
theeere's the kind of comment I've been looking for
Some nice three eyed roast flesh over fire with bread
Cody Johnson needs to watch this
Oh no he doesn't lol
Some More News is going to have a "field" day with this...!
We do need More Boar News.
skip to 6:58 for answer
Quite interesting fact about Wild Boar paradox 👌Thank you
I'm so proud that I managed to guess the cause instantly. Although the guess was based on incomplete reasoning. I knew that boars liked eating mushrooms because of truffle pigs. And I knew that some mushrooms collect radiation. So I assumed that the extra radiation came from mushrooms, but I didn't consider the nukes and the groundwater
In Texas they have helicopter boar hunting trips in some places 🐗 People pay a little money and fly around in a helicopter shooting and killing boars. They are that big of a problem in some places.
Radioactive boars are nasty, but radioactive Chernobyl mushrooms must be nastier.
Tasty*
Nah, the mushrooms are helping clean up the radiation.
Well, and since they are not even got it from Chernobil but air strikes... well, that means muslims are right.
@@михаиликкозлов even a broken clock is right twice a day
@@Echo_the_half_glitchwell, kind of. They might help be able to dilute the radiation because they'll concentrate the material in their flesh, which can then get blown away by the wind or eaten so that the hazardous material gets carried far away. But they don't actually do anything to change the total amount of radiation. Only time can do that.
I rarely ever lear something actually new and different on RUclips, but I did today. Thanks for the enlightenment.
I found some quite surprising! Great Video!
Wild boars and Chernobyl ?oh you know me so well
Mr Cody? Mr Coooody? The boars are back Mr Cody.
Cody Johnston warned us about the radioactive boars!
No one listened to Cody. We should have heeded his warning.
Very interesting video. Since the whole of Europe suffered some contamination to a greater or lesser degree, I wonder if a similar effect may be noticed in say France , albeit at a much lower scale - Pigs are used by truffle hunters along with dogs , but unlike dogs the pigs often eat the truffles before the hunter can get to them 😂 , a study of those pigs might reveal similar results, unless the number of pigs might be too small a sample or the difference might be too small to be a definitive result.
Boy, I wish there were a 25-second version of most of this channel's videos. "Boars are well-known to love fungi as a food source, and the fungi in the area pull water from deep in the water table, where radioactive cesium from weapons testing still lingers."
Hank: creates some of the most factually accurate scientific videos on the internet
Also Hank: secretly hoping for Teenage Mutant Ninja Boars
The Duality of Nerd.
Not Ninja.... Bebop. Rocksteady was the rhino
No no... Orcs. There will be orcs
"[...]that radioactive contamination is decreasing in just about every living thing, except for one species" 2? boars and mushrooms? if it is because of the mushrooms than you would expect the same levels there.
I believe that was spec talkin about species of animal; cuz im prty sure some plants stillve higher lvls than the animals do
The soil is considerably more radioactive than the air - we already knew that before we looked...
Well the mushrooms are taking up the older radioactive isotopes and stealing it through its mycelial web. The video didn't say if the fruiting bodies had stronger concentrations but that wouldn't matter much. Every mushroom the boars eat is another dose and when they eat hundreds and thousands of mushroom the isotopes get concentrated.
That is why herbivores have stronger levels than plants, omnivores and carnivores have even greater amounts. As things travel to the top of the food web the more concentrated the amount of radiation.
@@SylviaRustyFae like the stem which unlike leaves is not plucked out.
Hank: *educating us about boars and radioactivity*
Me: *remembering the boar scene from Hannibal* 😨
I actually heard this explained on the radio in around 2017. (I don't recall if they specifically mentioned Tschernobyl, but it was about wild boar meat from Germany and Austria containing radiation and about mushrooms.)
One note: is was USSR, not just Ukraine, as all the decisions were taken in Moscow.
"Wild boars do not break the laws of physics" - I need that on a T-Shirt.
Lawsofphysix the Gaul
@@VilcxjoVakero ...and now i want that shirt to have a boar in Asterix style...
Cody tried to warn us!
Truuuuu
Boars? That sounds Rad!
The TMNT's are popular because turtles are cute, and the creator decided to give them very laid-back and relatable personalities. No one would ever think that feral pigs are "cute", and they are in no way laid-back or relatable. So I don't think we will have to worry about seeing Teeanage Mutant Ninja Boars added to Saturday morning cartoons, at least not anytime soon.
OK, I figured that paradox out by 2:39 by reading the comments!
As soon as hank said “deeper than most organisms can reach”, i knew it was boars eating mushrooms!!! I feel almost too proud of that
Do you want ogre's? Because that's how you get ogre's! 😂
0:20 Everyone: "they must be eating something radioactive"
6:55 Hank: "they are eating something radioactive"
Right?! Seriously both my sister and I said "What are they eating that other animals aren't." Then I said it has to have something to do with their rooting behavior. How the hell did it take trained professionals this long to figure it out? Or was it more of a confirmation thing?
Important to find out rafiation long-terem effects in fast reproductive species.
Like rats, mice, rabbits, etc.
Are there significant genetic and body alterations or mutations after years of reproductive cyles?
Is their evolution different, vis-a-vis identical animals living in other parts of the world, not affected by the Chernobyl tragedy?
That was fascinating. It was very likely to be something the boars were eating; that was the immediately obvious conclusion. But that boars loved mushrooms, that was completely new information for me and probably for many of us who have never even seen a wild boar.
I wish I was a wild boar... or preferably, a pet cat.
😅
I saw an ad about radioactive boars, and I thought it was generated by an AI with the sinple goal to get as many clicks as possible...
30 people died in the explosion and 30 more people have died as a result of Chernobyl since then.
Some scientists say the number of people who developcancer as a resultcould reach into the thousands, but you must take this number with a grain of salt because of activist environmental scientists who simply hate nuclear energy.
Oh stop it
the same environmental scientists who estimated the number of cancers resulting from three mile island being a whopping .... 0.3?
Much more people died because of the disaster. Thousands. USSR has never collected true numbers, even never been interested in it. They havent tracked any cancer problems that liquidators approached after leaving Chernobyl.
The increase in miscarriages throughout Europe ie missing live births shows in the tens of thousands. For decades the nuclear industry has very much played down the total deaths
@HuplesCat you're lying, but for me I winder why. Solar panels are horrible for the environment and you want them more than nuclear, it makes no sense.
Does it affects their lifecycle? If yes, how?
Very interesting, thank you so much.
I wasn't aware the southern, part of Belarus was affected that bad neither. Crazy there's still people living in fact.