Expert reveals 'likely' reason behind Chernobyl’s mysterious blue dogs after viral photos
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Blue dogs in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone likely got their coloring from port-a-potty waste, not radiation exposure, says University of South Carolina expert Timothy Mousseau.
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However, a scientific advisor for the organization that cares for the strays says those ideas could not "be further from the truth."
"The blue dye likely came from a tipped over port-a-potty where the dogs were rolling around in the poop, as dogs are prone to do," Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina was quoted saying on the Dogs of Chernobyl Facebook account.
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