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07-06-2018, 05:04 AM
A wolf left its irradiated Chernobyl home. What happens if it mates?
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In the winter of 2015, a young male wolf left its home in the radiation-contaminated zone around Chernobyl, a Soviet nuclear plant that catastrophically exploded and melted down in 1986. The wolf traveled over 200 miles from its irradiated home, ranging into uncontaminated woods and, perhaps, meeting other wolves.
The travels of this lone wolf are only known because scientists fitted it with a GPS tracking device to follow its movements. Their research, published (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-018-1201-2) last month in the European Journal of Wildlife, begs questions about whether the wolves of Chernobyl might be mating with and passing along any mutated genes to other gray wolf populations, leading to wolves with marred genomes, reproductive problems, or whatever else might come of mutation.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/05/wolves-mutant-genes-chernobyl/)
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In the winter of 2015, a young male wolf left its home in the radiation-contaminated zone around Chernobyl, a Soviet nuclear plant that catastrophically exploded and melted down in 1986. The wolf traveled over 200 miles from its irradiated home, ranging into uncontaminated woods and, perhaps, meeting other wolves.
The travels of this lone wolf are only known because scientists fitted it with a GPS tracking device to follow its movements. Their research, published (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-018-1201-2) last month in the European Journal of Wildlife, begs questions about whether the wolves of Chernobyl might be mating with and passing along any mutated genes to other gray wolf populations, leading to wolves with marred genomes, reproductive problems, or whatever else might come of mutation.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/05/wolves-mutant-genes-chernobyl/)
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