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Despite animals in the Chernobyl area having high levels of radiation in their bodies, wildlife populations around Chernobyl have expanded rapidly.
The right answer will be a hypothesis that explains why wildlife populations expanded after the Chernobyl accident, despite the high levels of radiation. Population increases must be a likely outcome given the circumstances after the accident. These circumstances should outweigh the negative effects of the radiation.
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We need to know why these animals were still able to proliferate despite high levels of radiation. This doesn’t offer an explanation for that peculiar phenomenon.
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The stimulus tells us that wildlife populations generally have high levels of radiation. Even if some migratory species have lower radiation levels, that doesn't explain the wildlife boom overall.
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All this says is that lots of wildlife populations were likely affected by the radiation. We still don't know why their populations expanded.
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We already know that the animals are irradiated, and explicitly saying that some of the radiation suppresses fertility makes the population expansion more confusing, not less. This doesn't resolve anything.
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Though radiation may be a threat, wildlife populations were overall safer after Chernobyl. Humans had to leave, leading to a larger habitat with no hunters. This explains why wildlife populations increased.
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