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By Victoria Gill
image captionWild boar have thrived in Fukushima s abandoned towns Once people were gone, the boar took over, explains Donovan Anderson, a researcher at Fukushima University in Japan.
His genetic study of the wild boar that roam in an area largely abandoned after Japan s 2011 nuclear disaster - has revealed how the animals have thrived.
Using DNA samples, he also discovered that boar have bred with domestic pigs that escaped from farms.
This has created wild pig-boar hybrids that now inhabit the zone. While the radiation hasn t caused a genetic effect, the invasive domestic pig species has, Mr Anderson explained.
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