Fun Discovery News If a wild wolf runs away from home, it will wander hundreds of kilometers away from its home. The most we think of this wolf is too good, that's all. But if the wolf had fled a high-radiation-contaminated exclusion zone that had been a nuclear disaster, would you still have only these thoughts? If so, it means that you yourself are too "cattle". At the moment this wolf is alive or dead and no one knows.
During the Soviet era, the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986 was one of the worst man-made disasters in world history. The Chernobyl nuclear accident caused 400 times the radiation dose that exploded in Japan's Hiroshima atomic bomb. Although it has been more than 30 years, there are still 4,300 square kilometers of area that are considered to be heavily polluted and uninhabitable. It may take another 30 years for humanity to come back.
But what is surprising is the incredible recovery of the environment in the area in recent years, and this uninhabited nuclear pollution area has become a gathering place for many wild animals, and the animals that come and go have made the abandoned city a prosperous scene. Recently, researchers did not expect that a young and bold wolf had escaped from the radiation zone for no reason and began to roam the rivers and lakes.
Someone must ask: How do you know that a wild wolf has escaped from the radiation zone, did you see it? As you said, the researchers really haven't seen it, but in February 2015, the researchers installed GPS global locators on 13 wolves and began monitoring their every move. Because by GPS positioning scientists can learn more about how nuclear recession affects wildlife. Recently, scientists were surprised to find that the GPS locator on a 3-year-old male big bad wolf was far away from the radiation area and reached a location 369 kilometers away from home in a southeast direction.
We know that wolves are a highly gregarious species and have a good order of life within wolves. You generally don't leave home for no special reason, let alone go to a strange place hundreds of kilometers away from your home. However, a statistic from researchers shows that wolves in the contaminated exclusion zone are seven times denser than other nature reserves. Could it be that the wolves are overpopulated that wolves have to start spreading and migrating outwards? So Michael Byrne, a researcher at the University of Missouri in Colombia, argues that this migration is not only applicable to wolves, but also to other wild animals, which is reasonable.
Researchers will continue to track the wolf's GPS locator, but curiously the wolf's GPS locator has been present in the last location in recent months. Since the researchers couldn't retrieve the GPS locator, no one knew what the wolf was like now, perhaps it was dead by this time, or maybe it had broken free of the GPS locator and gone to another place.
But even if the wolf takes off its GPS locator and appears near your home, don't be afraid, because the maximum amount of radiation that the human body can withstand in a year is 1 millisievert. Maybe everyone doesn't know much about the amount of radiation, generally we go to the hospital to take an X-ray of about 0.023 millisieverts. So as long as you don't sleep with this wolf in your arms every day, there will certainly be no impact, of course, if you are bitten by it, it will be another matter. Finally, what scientists want to know most is how far genes with nuclear radiation mutations in wild animals can travel. For more interesting scientific exploration content, please pay attention to the only WeChat public account: Interesting Exploration