The scientist spoke about the absence of mass mutations in animals in Chernobyl.

Despite popular beliefs, there are no mass visible mutations in animals in the Chernobyl zone. Denis Vishnevsky, head of the scientific Department of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, told about this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine on April 19.

"Even when we catch some animals, they don't visually differ in any way<... If mutations accumulate, then this is the way to get out of the marathon of survival," he said.

According to the scientist, the current radiation level in the exclusion zone is not so high as to cause massive visible anomalies. Vishnevsky added that in natural conditions, individuals with disabilities have low viability and, as a rule, do not survive, therefore they do not form a stable population.

The Bild newspaper, citing data from the Federal Administrative Agency, reported on April 18 that hunters in Germany had shot almost 3,000 wild boars that had been irradiated with radioactive cesium-137. It clarifies that the meat of such wild boars cannot be put up for sale, so the authorities compensate hunters for disposal in the amount of about €204 per grown boar and €102 per piglet.