Chernobyl-based birds avoid radioactive nests
* 00:01 28 March 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
* Catherine Brahic
Birds in Chernobyl choose to nest in sites with lower levels of
background radioactivity, researchers discover, but how they can tell
remains a mystery.
Anders Møller at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, and
Tim Mousseau at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, US,
erected more than 200 nest boxes in the Red Forest, about 3 (...)