Post by Eugene 2.0 on Apr 27, 2021 13:18:45 GMT
Who played STALKER know that there were dogs and some other creatures. And there were characters who tamed some of them. I wonder are there any mysterious or chemical, or kinda, differences between the real Chernobyl creatures and our common pets?
In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, guards watching for human trespassers are befriending and even caring for the descendants of dogs abandoned when tens of thousands of people had to abandon their entire lives and flee when reactor 4 exploded in 1986. Their interactions, collected and documented through work from the BBC, tell a story of a spark of humanity returning to a place long void of it.
When reactor 4 went 34 years ago, the residents of Pripyat were told to leave everything behind including their pets. Jonathon Turnbull, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge, lives in Kyiv and has visited the 1,000 square mile Exclusion Zone many times.
There he met a variety of guards very unique in the world, those charged with ensuring no one sneaks into a contaminated wasteland. These guards, he learned, had formed complex relationships with the semi-wild dogs that inhabited the Exclusion Zone. Their stories of feeding, naming, caring for, or altogether avoiding various dogs based on temperament and personality fascinated Turnbull. For his research in geography, he asked if the guards would be wiling to carry disposable cameras and photograph the dogs in their day-to-day lives.
“If I wanted to know the dogs,” Turnbull told BBC Future, “I needed to go to the people who know them best—and that was the guards.”
Their photographs are intriguing, as they capture so many interesting sides to the lives of millions of ownerless canines around the world. Not quite wild, not quite domesticated, they roam cities and settlements looking for food. Here in the Exclusion Zone however, the personalities of the dogs are similar, but the environment is totally different. While having total freedom, even in roaming within and without the Exclusion Zone, their lives are difficult. Beset as they are by radiation, there are also hungry wolf packs, bears, wildfires, and manmade hazards left behind.
The guards give them names, sometimes. Some dogs linger too far from patrol routes and guard posts to reveal themselves. There’s Arka, who should not be pet, sausage, who warms herself by napping one heating ducts, Tarzan, who allegedly does tricks for food, and Alpha, which the guards explain is named after a kind of radiation.
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In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, guards watching for human trespassers are befriending and even caring for the descendants of dogs abandoned when tens of thousands of people had to abandon their entire lives and flee when reactor 4 exploded in 1986. Their interactions, collected and documented through work from the BBC, tell a story of a spark of humanity returning to a place long void of it.
When reactor 4 went 34 years ago, the residents of Pripyat were told to leave everything behind including their pets. Jonathon Turnbull, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge, lives in Kyiv and has visited the 1,000 square mile Exclusion Zone many times.
There he met a variety of guards very unique in the world, those charged with ensuring no one sneaks into a contaminated wasteland. These guards, he learned, had formed complex relationships with the semi-wild dogs that inhabited the Exclusion Zone. Their stories of feeding, naming, caring for, or altogether avoiding various dogs based on temperament and personality fascinated Turnbull. For his research in geography, he asked if the guards would be wiling to carry disposable cameras and photograph the dogs in their day-to-day lives.
“If I wanted to know the dogs,” Turnbull told BBC Future, “I needed to go to the people who know them best—and that was the guards.”
Their photographs are intriguing, as they capture so many interesting sides to the lives of millions of ownerless canines around the world. Not quite wild, not quite domesticated, they roam cities and settlements looking for food. Here in the Exclusion Zone however, the personalities of the dogs are similar, but the environment is totally different. While having total freedom, even in roaming within and without the Exclusion Zone, their lives are difficult. Beset as they are by radiation, there are also hungry wolf packs, bears, wildfires, and manmade hazards left behind.
The guards give them names, sometimes. Some dogs linger too far from patrol routes and guard posts to reveal themselves. There’s Arka, who should not be pet, sausage, who warms herself by napping one heating ducts, Tarzan, who allegedly does tricks for food, and Alpha, which the guards explain is named after a kind of radiation.
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