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The dogs of Chernobyl: Populations in the nuclear exclusion zone (2023)
- jgrahamc 2y agoWhen I was there I met some of these dogs. Here are a couple of photos of the very friendly pooches: https://imgur.com/a/8vsKxzp https://imgur.com/a/8vsKxzp
- dgb23 2y agoBeautiful creatures! It’s interesting that they converged towards that rugged but still very dog-ish appearance.
- IntStorage 2y ago*Chornobyl https://insp.pnnl.gov/-chorninit-spelling.htm#:~:text=The%20Spelling%20of%20Chornobyl&text=Two%20of%20the%20most%20noticeable,officials%20with%20whom%20we%20work https://insp.pnnl.gov/-chorninit-spelling.htm#:~:text=The%20....
- silvestreh 2y agoBoth spellings are correct—they’re just in different languages. Chernóbil (Spanish) is also correct, but you probably wouldn’t point it out because it’s not Russian.
- dagenleg 2y agoAnd I'm sure you see that there might me somewhat of a slight issue with calling Ukrainian cities in Russian, considering the political situation.
- ralfd 2y ago[flagged]
- outworlder 2y agoThis is not a place for political propaganda. The war is far from decided.
- gwervc 2y agoIt was decided years ago, but some politicians and shareholders decided it was a good opportunity to exploit. Also the Russian economy was supposed to collapse few years ago because of UE sanctions. Still waiting for that to happen.
- Retric 2y agoI’d call it collapsed, but Russia is used to severe economic issues so their tolerance is rather different. GDP looks ok with all that military spending and unemployment is down, but the rest of the economy looks terrible.
- trhway 2y agoYou know, man, you should complete your joke and suggest that, following the Far East cities of Russia, the rest of Russia should also start using Chinese spelling.
- thih9 2y agoI guess it’s just as correct as referring to Alaska as “Aljáska” (Russian).
- aguaviva 2y agoExcept it's not. Chernobyl is just another popular spelling that people have gotten accustomed to. But no one outside the Russian Mir ever refers to Alaska as Aljáska. There's no signficance or import to the chosen spelling. This whole flame war is completely pointless.
- thih9 2y ago> Chernobyl is just another popular spelling that people have gotten accustomed to. Exactly. And “Chernóbil” isn’t - that’s my point. So the argument about “Chernóbil” is as pointless as “Aljiáska”.
- inquirerGeneral 2y ago[dead]
- mjfl 2y agoI hope you display the same sensitivity when it comes to Gaza. Really tired of Western hypocrisy.
- apelapan 2y agoWhat way of spelling of Gaza do you prefer?
- lionkor 2y agoChernobyl happens to be the popular spelling. Don't start trying to tell people what to say and what not to say, that doesn't fly.
- egorfine 2y ago*Chernobyl. While "Chornobyl" is the current official Ukrainian spelling of the city name, the catastrophe itself took place at the "Chernobyl NPP" and the zone is consequentially named "Chernobyl Exclusion Zone". Renaming the past is not a way to win the future.
- ulrischa 2y agoSince 2017, organizations like the Clean Futures Fund have been providing veterinary care, including vaccination, spaying, and neutering, to manage the dog population and reduce disease transmission risks
- georgeecollins 2y agoI want to hear about the cats of Chernobyl! I read in a book that "domesticated" cats are essentially the same as wild cats, they just have different habits because of the way they are raised. That suggests to me that in the absence of a human population (and the right climate) some would survive in the wild.
- trhway 2y agohttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832311/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832311/ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUNhqnpiOE ) "It's been over 20 years since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. ... This documentary shows a family of cats whose mother once lived with the former inhabitants of the zone. "
- ftrobro 2y agoDomesticated cats survive so well in the wild that they have eradicated several other animal species: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-stagg...
- oaththrowaway 2y agoMy cat spends 99% of her time outside. She likes to come in and hang out with my kids when they get home from school and take a quick nap, but then she's asking to be let out by the time we're eating dinner. She'd rather be exploring, hunting mice/chipmunks, and fighting off raccoons and skunks for her food and water supply.
- e40 2y agoWild house cats are called feral cats. They exist all over. They are extremely fearful and/or avoidant of humans. And by "all over" I mean in cities, living among us. A dog, that is lost in a city will invariably find a human to take it in. Sometimes cats will do that, but cats are pickier about their humans than most dogs are. The first generation of cats born in the while will essentially become completely wild once they are adults and the chances of domesticating them is very low. I, too, would love to see and hear about the cats of Chernobyl.
- trhway 2y ago>Of all Chernobyl dog populations, dogs from Slavutych show the greatest haplotype sharing with purebred dogs, particularly with the Labrador retriever, boxer, and Yorkshire terrier While i can understand Labrador and boxer, where is the Yorkshire comes from? For anybody who remembers dogs in 1986 in USSR you can hardly remember seeing any Yorkshire (or any other small breed really).
- natmaka 2y ago"Chernobyl Created the World's Rarest Dogs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVGwOP_zi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVGwOP_zi8
- ryukoposting 2y agoAfter doing a bit more reading about this topic, I'd be really interested to see a follow-up study that includes samples of the local wolf population. Supposedly, one of the reasons the dogs all hang around the power plant is because they get driven out of the woods by wolves. I wonder if there is any genetic cross-over between them.