Wild horses thrive in Chernobyl's radiation-hit exclusion zone

Przewalski's horses run in the Chernobyl zone on August 26, 2017. They are the Przewalski's horses, an endangered species native to Asia which surprisingly thrives in the area tainted by radiation, after having once disappeared in the wild.
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Since the nuclear disaster, the area has become a haven for elk, wolves -- and the stocky endangered breed of wild horse native to Asia, Przewalski's horse
Chernobyl nuclear disaster is worst of its kind in human history. The explosion in the fourth reactor at the nuclear power plant on April, 26, 1986 left swathes of Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus badly contaminated with radiation. This led to the formation of a no man's land within a 30-kilometre (19-mile) radius of the station. Towns, villages were evacuated and the exclusion zone was considered uninhabitable for humans for the next 24,000 years.

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