The world’s most radioactive animal?

Radioactive Boars: The Unlikely Survivors of Chernobyl

In the shadow of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, an unexpected species has thrived—radioactive wild boars.

In this episode of Proving the Concept, we explore the eerie rise of wild boars in and around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where high radiation levels persist decades after the 1986 meltdown. These animals have become symbols of nature’s strange resilience—and a cautionary tale of lingering contamination.

What You’ll Learn:
• Why wild boar populations are booming in abandoned radioactive zones
• How radioactive isotopes like caesium-137 are still present in their bodies today
• Why even boars in non-Chernobyl areas (like parts of Germany) show signs of contamination
• What these radioactive animals are teaching scientists about ecology, mutation, and survival

They’re wild, they’re thriving, and they’re still glowing (on the Geiger counter).

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