Fukushima disaster: Tracking the wild boar ‘takeover’
A genetic study shows wild boar are thriving and breeding with domestic pigs from abandoned farms. …
So, he said, while the evacuated area was the origin of this hybridisation, or cross-breeding, the hybrid pigs then go on to breed with wild boar. As Prof Shingo Kaneko from Fukushima University’s Institute of Environmental Radioactivity put it: “Those invasive genes are disappearing, and the natural situation is coming back.”
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