RADIOACTIVE CANCER WOLVES
Since 2014 Cara Love, an evolutionary biologist and ecotoxicologist from Princeton University, has been carrying out research on the wolf population living in the 1,000 square mile (2,600 km2) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Using radio collars to track the animals, she was able to make “real-time measurements of where [the wolves] are and how much [radiation] they are exposed to”.
She discovered that they were receiving over 11.28 millirems of radiation every day, more than six times the safe limit for humans. She also found that the wolves had evolved altered immune systems and that their DNA had changed significantly, developing areas resistant to increased cancer risk,
