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Interview with Dr. Robert Baker, Co-Director, Chernobyl Project, Texas Tech University. He talks here about Bank voles (small rodents) found inside Chernobyl's "Hot Zone:"

''They're cigar-looking cigar-shaped things with a red real reddish color on their back, and they're about four inches long. And, in fact, those voles are radioactive. You can catch one and you can get the Geiger counter and, I mean, it screams. But they seem to be able to do their lifecycle things and all without great consequences. If you didn't have a Geiger counter, you would not be able to tell that there was an effect.

WERTHEIMER: What about large mammals? Have you looked at large mammals?

Dr. BAKER: Oh, the wolves are doing really well there, the moose. We have not seen red deer, but our trail cameras have picked them up.''