In 1986, they were ordered not to survive. Today, about 700 dogs live in the Exclusion Zone—the direct descendants of those who failed to be exterminated.
Scientists have analyzed the DNA of 302 of them. What they found was more interesting than any story about mutants.
This is a film about the dogs of Chernobyl: how they were abandoned in April 1986, why the extermination order was not fully carried out, and what a full genome analysis revealed almost 40 years later. 129,497 DNA points, 15 family lines, 391 sites under selection pressure—and two different dog "nations" separated by just 16 kilometers.
No fiction about mutants and glowing fur. Only real research, named institutes, and concrete figures—including one that explains why the zone turned out to be not a mutagen, but a filter.
0:00 — A Dog Named Gamma
2:45 — The City Where Dogs Lived
4:59 — April Twenty-Seventh
7:04 — The Order
8:58 — Those Who Were Not Found
11:18 — They Returned to Man
13:32 — Who Lives in the Zone Today
16:07 — How Much Radiation Do They Actually Have?
19:02 — There Are No Mutants. There Is a Bio-Toilet
21:27 — Three Hundred and Two Dogs
24:04 — Not Like All the Dogs on the Planet
26:21 — Sixteen Kilometers and the Selection Trail
28:11 — Four Checks
31:04 — The Zone Is Not a Mutagen The Zone — Filter
32:31 — The Unsolved Riddle
35:07 — What Exactly Did the Zone Take?
37:42 — Four Years
40:22 — Winter, Wolves, and '22
42:43 — The People Who Feed Them
45:05 — What Will Happen to Them Next
47:10 — The Last Ones We Abandoned
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In 1986, they were ordered not to survive. Today, about 700 dogs live in the Exclusion Zone—the direct descendants of those who failed to be exterminated.
Scientists have analyzed the DNA of 302 of them. What they found was more interesting than any story about mutants.
This is a film about the dogs of Chernobyl: how they were abandoned in April 1986, why the extermination order was not fully carried out, and what a full genome analysis revealed almost 40 years later. 129,497 DNA points, 15 family lines, 391 sites under selection pressure—and two different dog "nations" separated by just 16 kilometers.
No fiction about mutants and glowing fur. Only real research, named institutes, and concrete figures—including one that explains why the zone turned out to be not a mutagen, but a filter.
0:00 — A Dog Named Gamma
2:45 — The City Where Dogs Lived
4:59 — April Twenty-Seventh
7:04 — The Order
8:58 — Those Who Were Not Found
11:18 — They Returned to Man
13:32 — Who Lives in the Zone Today
16:07 — How Much Radiation Do They Actually Have?
19:02 — There Are No Mutants. There Is a Bio-Toilet
21:27 — Three Hundred and Two Dogs
24:04 — Not Like All the Dogs on the Planet
26:21 — Sixteen Kilometers and the Selection Trail
28:11 — Four Checks
31:04 — The Zone Is Not a Mutagen The Zone — Filter
32:31 — The Unsolved Riddle
35:07 — What Exactly Did the Zone Take?
37:42 — Four Years
40:22 — Winter, Wolves, and '22
42:43 — The People Who Feed Them
45:05 — What Will Happen to Them Next
47:10 — The Last Ones We Abandoned
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Comment below: What do you think the Zone really took away — resistance to radiation or the ability to trust people?
#Chernobyl #ExclusionZone #DogsofChernobyl #Pripyat #Science