Expert reveals 'likely' reason behind Chernobyl’s mysterious blue dogs after viral photos

There whitethorn beryllium a astonishing crushed down the mysterious bluish dogs that were precocious spotted roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Photos taken earlier this twelvemonth showed respective dogs with agleam bluish fur wandering the tract of the 1986 atomic catastrophe successful Ukraine, fueling wide speculation online, including theories of radiation vulnerability and mutations.

However, a technological advisor for the enactment that cares for the strays says those ideas could not "be further from the truth."

"The bluish dye apt came from a tipped implicit port-a-potty wherever the dogs were rolling astir successful the poop, arsenic dogs are prone to do," Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina was quoted saying connected the Dogs of Chernobyl Facebook account.

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Photos taken earlier this twelvemonth showed respective dogs with agleam bluish fur wandering the tract of the 1986 atomic catastrophe successful Ukraine. (Clean Futures Fund via Storyful )

Mousseau noted this behaviour is akin to however immoderate dogs are drawn to feline litter boxes.

"The bluish coloration was simply a motion of the dog's unsanitary behavior!" Mousseau said. "As immoderate canine proprietor knows, astir dogs volition devour conscionable astir anything, including feces!"

Despite the societal media speculation, the dogs' bluish fur does "not bespeak immoderate benignant of mutation oregon evolutionary adaptation to radiation," helium added.

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Dogs of Chernobyl, the programme that cares for the astir 700 dogs successful the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, archetypal shared images of the blue-tinted dogs successful October.   (Clean Futures Fund via Storyful )

Dogs of Chernobyl, the programme that cares for the astir 700 dogs successful the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and is affiliated with the nonprofit Clean Futures Fund (CFF), archetypal shared images of the blue-tinted dogs successful October.  

At the time, the radical had been incapable to seizure the animals to find the root of their antithetic coloring.

"We are connected the crushed catching dogs for sterilization, and we came crossed 3 dogs that were wholly blue," Dogs of Chernobyl posted to Instagram. "We are not definite precisely what is going [on]. … We bash not cognize the reason, and we are attempting to drawback them truthful we tin find retired what is happening."

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FILE PHOTO: Two stray dogs with agleam bluish fur locomotion on the street. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

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Many dogs were near down pursuing the Chernobyl atomic works explosion, erstwhile much than 120,000 evacuees were told to permission immediately, according to CFF.

"The evacuees were not allowed to bring thing that they could not carry, and their pets had to beryllium near behind," the CFF website notes. "They were told they would instrumentality successful 3 days, but they were ne'er allowed to return. Their pets became abandoned."

Timothy Mousseau did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.