These dogs are several generations removed from the dogs abandoned in Chernobyl in ... and everything in and near Chernobyl, the animals living there are thriving. This includes domesticated ...

Researchers estimate that approximately 500 feral dogs remain in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. These have been divided into distinct packs, scavenging for food around abandoned buildings and ...

according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International (SPCAI). Although most think of Chernobyl as a wasteland, the nuclear power plant is still up and running with more ...

These voracious predators hunt them in their own burrows, and take shelter in abandoned prairie dog dwellings ... In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program ...

Inside the abandoned buildings ... that prompted the evacuation of more than 1,000 people. One of the reasons Chernobyl was so disastrous was because smoke from a fire spread radioactive ...