We greet you, our dear spectator! Today our radioactive team has prepared quite unusual and interesting information for you. Our today's story will go, no matter how strange it may sound, about a herd of wild cows that have recently been found in the vastness of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Yes - yes, about wild cows!
This story actively gained momentum after the release of the TSN news service on the 1 + 1 TV channel. It should be said that a herd of wild cattle was spotted in the vastness of the Exclusion Zone several years ago.
Just 30 kilometers from the city of Chernobyl, the unofficial capital of the Zone, there is a village called Lubyanka. In 1986, after the Chernobyl disaster, the population was relocated to the new village of Lubyanka, located in the Vasilkovsky district of the Kyiv region. Sometime after the evacuation outside the zone, some of the evacuees returned to their native villages and live there to this day. These people were nicknamed self-settlers from the very beginning. For almost 35 years the civilian population has been living in the zone, and during this period of time, these people have acquired their own full-fledged life and keep a full-fledged economy. For example, as of 2010, about six self-settlers lived in the village of Lubyanka. An operating enterprise of foresters is located not far from the village.
According to Denis Vishnevsky, he had observed these representatives of cattle earlier. Around 2013-14. Until that time, it was the most common livestock that self-settlers kept on their farm. After the death of the elderly, the cattle gradually began to run wild. It was easy enough for the cows to adapt to life without owners.
Tours, which by the way are one of the progenitors of modern cattle, have long lived in the Polesie region. It was recorded that the last tour died in the forests of Poland around 1927. Three centuries later, environmentalists discovered that large herbivores such as the ancient bull helped preserve the landscape, as they were, in fact, "living lawnmowers."
By the way, a wild herd of cows from the village of Lubyanka changed the rhythm of their life so much that they adapted to do without milking.
The territory of the former village of Lubyanka has become an excellent refuge for a herd of cattle. Wild cows have found a new home under the shelter of former cowsheds on the territory of a once working collective farm, which provides natural protection from wind and rain.
As of today, the workers of the Chernobyl Biosphere Reserve have counted about 20 heads in the herd of wild cattle living on the territory of the exclusion zone. A large bull is at the head of the herd, and there are also about a dozen calves in the herd.
During the winter season, the herd of Chernobyl cows also adapted to the extraction of food. With the help of their own hooves, they learned how to get themselves hay from under the snow floor. The herd is kept by a group controlled by the head bull. Ecologists say that this is a unique phenomenon for the Chernobyl world!