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Re:The dogs of Chernobyl: Canine populations inhabiting a nu... by radagast on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:37PM (#35024742)
This is why I love HN - in the between the constant bombardments of the latest AI advances or the newest frameworks we get someone that shares something most of us would have missed.

I've visited Kyiv twice and both times went on a guided tour around Chernobyl and Pripyat. I have fond memories of the beautiful dogs that knew how to play the tourists for food. I had read about them beforehand so I brought them some proper dog food. One of them had the biggest tick I've ever seen, it was almost the size of my thumb. Even though they roamed free some nice people care for them. They were tagged so probably most of them either sterilized or vaccinated.

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Re:The dogs of Chernobyl: Canine populations inhabiting a nu... by InCityDreams on Saturday March 04, 2023 @04:41PM (#35024764)
>They were tagged so probably most of them either sterilized or vaccinated.

Tagged also to include gps, one would hope.

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Re:The dogs of Chernobyl: Canine populations inhabiting a nu... by beebeepka on Saturday March 04, 2023 @07:37PM (#35025978)
The tag is likely just a clip on of the dog's ears.
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Re:The dogs of Chernobyl: Canine populations inhabiting a nu... by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:07PM (#35024936)
> the biggest tick I've ever seen

In East Africa, the cows would get these massive ticks that were visible, when driving past on the road. They were the size of ping-pong balls (and sort of looked like bluish ones).

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Re:The dogs of Chernobyl: Canine populations inhabiting a nu... by cheeze on Saturday March 04, 2023 @10:24PM (#35026653)
Same. I find that hn crowd is pretty well educated. It's almost a replacement for reddit, which has gone way downhill for me.

I don't care about writing a webserver in scheme or whatnot. I come here for this stuff these days.

I wish there was an easy way to find stuff like this and filter out the... Normal hn stuff. I love the long reads I've found here. Eg "the secret of nanda devi" or "the hunt for the death valley Germans"

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