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Chernobyl reclaimed

  • 14-01-2011 7:23pm
    #1
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭


    Anyone watching this.
    Fascinating look at a (non-human) ecosystem in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
    Crazy thing, survival.


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  • #2
    number10a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    I've read about this before. Really interesting! What channel is it on?


  • #3
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭take everything


    RTE 2


  • #4
    mystique150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭mystique150


    Also watching this. Its quite remarkable that the animals that have had mutations tend not to be successful and eventually the mutation is lost. Survival of the fittest at its finest.


  • #5
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭take everything


    Just wondering if any of these animals will become xmenesque super-animals :p


  • #6
    mystique150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭mystique150


    take everything wrote: »
    Just wondering if any of these animals will become xmenesque super-animals :p

    Unless the mutation is beneficial to the overall population, individuals that develop a mutation won't be successful at finding a mate and those individuals will die out. Just like the example they gave of the swallow with the white patch.


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  • #7
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,810 ✭✭✭take everything


    mystique150 wrote: »
    Unless the mutation is beneficial to the overall population, individuals that develop a mutation won't be successful at finding a mate and those individuals will die out. Just like the example they gave of the swallow with the white patch.

    Yeah of course.
    Just interesting to speculate on what possible advantages/ disadvantages such an environment could confer on its inhabitants through this process.


  • #8
    mystique150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭mystique150


    take everything wrote: »
    Yeah of course.
    Just interesting to speculate on what possible advantages/ disadvantages such an environment could confer on its inhabitants through this process.

    Seems like the advantages have outweighed the disadvantages. I thought it was interesting to hear that the animals don't naturally live long enough to develop tumors.


  • #9
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Was this an RTE show, will it be on the player?


  • #10
    mystique150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭mystique150


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Was this an RTE show, will it be on the player?

    Yes, should be on rte player


  • #11
    madrab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    Couldnt find it on rte player, but it is up on youtube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-UOHn9PvJ0&feature=related

    Quite interesting


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  • #12
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Loved it. Kept saying if any of the cats died I was turning it off! :D


  • #13
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Yeah i seen this the other night. I found it very interesting. Amazing to think that even though the place is out of bounds to humans, nature just keeps on going regardless. Non-human animals thrive like nothing ever happened.

    We can be a disgusting bunch us humans. The place won't return to normal for a few thousand years it seems.


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