Can The Dogs Of Chernobyl Teach Us New Tricks On Survival?

A study published in the journal Science Advances, focusing on 302 free-roaming dogs living in an officially designated "exclusion zone" around the disaster site, shows that the dogs of Chernobyl might teach us new tricks on survival.

More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed, and survive.

Scientists hope that studying these dogs can tea...

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