Chernobyl's Radioactive Wild Boar Paradox
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- After the Chernobyl Disaster, researchers have been studying the movement of radioactive contamination all over central Europe. Fortunately, that radioactive contamination is decreasing in just about every living thing, except for one species. This dilemma has been dubbed the wild boar paradox, and the answer to the mystery has been buried underground for decades.
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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
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.
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
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
@junespaintbrush . . . I can dig that.
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.
He is right. I did mushrooms once and I felt radiocative too.
😂😂😂😂
Legend
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
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.
"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.
"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.
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 .;-))?
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.
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...
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."
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!
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.
@@doraspoljar697 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
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.
Has this guy not watched Princess Mononoke? Boars turning into demons is a recognised risk....
as far as scishow videos go, this is one of my favorites. it's like watching a murder mystery movie but for science.
"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.
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.
This was our study! Thank you!!
Now I know if a wild boar is running at me, throw a mushroom!
This wonderfullu informative presentation convinced me to subscribe !
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.
@icollectstories5702 . . . Whew! Just don't stand behind one of those radioactive boars when it farts. 🚫
@@davidwang4364 🧪
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?
All we really need to know is how radiation is effecting the boars.
I love your dynamic narrative.
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 💯
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.
That was a terrific presentation. Very Clear. Thank you
Nice! Finally some science we can trust because it was based on good, thorough research. Good presentation and very informative, thank you.
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
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
Excellent video. Thanks.
Thanks for great intrigue. Great vid. Liked and 'scribed.
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 😂.
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've watched a number of documentaries on Chernobyl and found them all fascinating. Interesting watching this episode
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.
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.
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.
I rarely ever lear something actually new and different on UA-cam, but I did today. Thanks for the enlightenment.
I found some quite surprising! Great Video!
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?
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
I knew about the mushrooms, but so much new info! Thanks Hank!
Funny, before i watched the video i already thought that mushrooms played a hand in the explanation, as it is common knowledge here, that they can store radiation (which is why after Tschernobyl gathering mushrooms wasnt recommended for quite some time). And boars love mushrooms!
I love the superposition between the SciShow and Some More News fandom
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I was looking for the comment about that. They are feeding on the radiation!
Those baby wild boar photos were adorable!
I heard about the boar/mushroom link at Chernobyl at least years ago. It was in a documentary about the Soviet nuclear legacy and they mentioned in passing that the wild boar were particularly hot near the sites because they ate mushrooms.
so, do the boars get cancer or mutate or... kinda left us hangin there.
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
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
Great video.
Would be interesting to know how these boars are able to survive in the first place. Are they getting adapted to the increased radiation levels?
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.
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.
@@user-ii8gr4fp3p 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.
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?
I was backpacking with my daughter in the mid 90’s when we met a guy from Eastern Europe. We talked about the types of food we were carrying to eat on our trips, when he explained that he was primarily eating ramen noodles and wild mushrooms. Since the botulism contamination of mushroom soup in the early 70s I’ve been skeptical of mushrooms. Anyway he explained how you pick good ones from bad ones explaining there were exceptions to each method then realizing I wasn’t being won over he stated he’d been told by his Dad you could eat any mushroom once. Guess I should add glowing in the dark to the toxic list ?
Wild boars and Chernobyl ?oh you know me so well
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.
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...
Interesting , Thank You.
Do you want ogre's? Because that's how you get ogre's! 😂
Surprised not to see Dr. Mr. Cody Johnston in these comments
Not yet ...
I like your channel and stories
Very interesting - one more connection - a few years ago, in Bavaria, south Germany, they forbade the hunters to eat wild boars that they captured, as they found them radioactive. There was a ban after Chernobil but was then lifted for many years only to come back not more than 5 years ago. When I started watching this video I said to myself, the answer is mushrooms, and it was, but the question that springs to me now is what exactly happened back then in the first years of atmosferic testing in the world? How much of this was really expelled and how it still effects us? Was there a testing range in the Chernobil/Mogilev area, so that this is a local effect, or do we all suffer from it as "collateral damage"?
Thank you for doing great insightful videos and best regards from Slovenia.
Cody Johnston warned us about the radioactive boars!
No one listened to Cody. We should have heeded his warning.
Cody tried to warn us!
Truuuuu
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.
Good show!
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
1:04 Correction: it wasn't as soon as it happened. The USSR took their sweet time (given the scale and seriousness of the disaster) to evacuate and declare the exclusion zone. Also in cleaning the area up. Well "cleaning" anyways.
They're Russians. What do you expect?
i just added that evacuation been planted on April 26 but happens in 27 and nobody informed people about danger and couple day later there been a parade in Kyiv with winds from Chernobyl
@@weird-axolotl Yup. They literally waited to tell the people in the planned city (forget its name) for the families of the people who worked at Chernobyl. Like the kids were outside *playing* in the nuclear fallout, parents were commenting on it, and government officials were all like "nah Comrade, everything is peachy keen"
The USSR didn't warn the local people, until Western media broke the story 3 days after the disaster.
@@angelitabecerra Pripyat was its name.
Thanks to the researchers. They are always unknown, for the most part, but they are great helpers to civilization. Thank you!🎉 Great job!
Interesting video. This was quite surprising to me.
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.
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...
So deep in the ground water... it's it boar water? I'll get my coat...
This is a long explanation but one thing us farmers know is that when you have wild boars or pigs you can pen them into a low area and their wallow that includes there feces creates a barrier to water. This creates what they call a wallow. Farmers will sometimes use this ability to create water retention areas on land or small ponds. this means that any radioactive contaminates caught in a boars wallow will be held there and recontaminate the boars everytime they lay in their wallow. I wonder if they know about this as they didn't mention it
Very interesting, thanks. I wondered if it's also due to something else I heard... the fact that pigs don't sweat/perspire ie. their ''waste salts'' hang around inside - inverted within their fat and tissues - creating ''flavour''. No wonder pigs bother G-d so much, aside from their being known to have sometimes mauled the faces and legs of farmers who've fainted from the stench in their pig-sties... although the water-retention areas on a farm would be helpful, granted 😊😊.
Good hunting, STALKER
theeere's the kind of comment I've been looking for
Some nice three eyed roast flesh over fire with bread
Love this channel, always something unexpected and fascinating going on!
Fascinating. Thanks.
Interesting, thanks.
Fungi in forests grounds are truly fascinating
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.
Pigs also don’t have very sweat glands , which help to remove toxins from the body, so makes sense to me they would hold in more radiation than other animals
I’m só happening that you have recovered, Hank! My mum is struggling with NHL, that’s a lot harder
Mr Cody? Mr Coooody? The boars are back Mr Cody.
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
glow-in-the-dark bacon? I'm IN!
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.
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
Someone show this to Cody Johnston!
Years ago it was already reported that beneath a thin surface layer, the radiation stays constant. Boars when looking for food mess with that surface layer. Also mushrooms were said to take in more radiation than other plants. Here in germany we were adviced not to eat them after Tshernobyl, especially from the black forest area where some of that fallout rained down.
Besides that, since the 1960s drinking water was enhanced with added jod, to counter act radition effecting the population.
- Why is it impossible to pick mushrooms near Chernobyl? - Because they are scattering.
Hank: *educating us about boars and radioactivity*
Me: *remembering the boar scene from Hannibal* 😨
I wish I was a wild boar... or preferably, a pet cat.
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There are also people living in that zone according to what I understood from watching you tube video's of "Bald and Bankrupt". I found those interesting videos. They were pre lock down.
Cool information.