Scientists study boar that moved in after the Fukushima meltdown
A small wild boar in a residential area of Tomioka town in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture
Associated Press/Photo by Hiro Komae (file)
A decade after humans left territory surrounding the meltdown site of the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, pigs patrol the landscape. Scientists are now taking stock of the area’s new apex species.
“Once people were gone, the boar took over,” Fukushima University researcher Donovan Anderson told the BBC.
Anderson and his team studied the genetics of the boar that’s risen to dominate the irradiated area. According to the team’s research, published June 30 in the