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July 1, 1946 on the Bikini Atoll (Pacific Ocean), the United States blew up atomic bomb. Until 1953, another 23 times the nuclear mushroom rose a lost patch of land in the middle of the ocean. When the military “got enough” scientists arrived on the atoll to see what life is like after “apocalypse.” Although since the last test has passed for several years, they did not hope to find at least some life on Bikini. Atoll met them with a crust sintered into a vitreous mass sand. Not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass. But life on the atoll was! Crazy scientists were met by cockroaches and … rats! Cockroaches – where else nothing but rats ?! How did they survive? What did you eat? Have begun experiments. It turned out that rats can tolerate radiation at 10 times the lethal dose to humans! Yes not all the subjects could withstand such an execution, but the survivors gave radiation resistant offspring. Soon found the answer to the second question. Among Bikini rats, the ratio of females to males was 2.5: 1. Scientists noted an increase in the number of mating and the number of pups in litter. At first it perplexed observers: why on lifeless island, where there is no food, rats, on the contrary, begin multiply intensively? It turned out that there is increased fertility it is the consequence of a lack of food. Rats ate each other! Moreover, this was not spontaneous cannibalism. Immediately after the birth of the rat for some unknown reason they were divided into those who were destined to live and those who are destined to be eaten. There were no fights, no fighting for the life of the doomed. The “meat” meekly brought itself to sacrifice in the name of preserving the population. So the rats are quite capable survive the nuclear explosion and the subsequent nuclear winter with its without feed. In the midst of the atom-burned desert, rats will remain the only representatives of highly organized mammals. If some representatives of the human race succeed to survive, they will have to join the struggle for survival with the terrible and dangerous enemy.
Rat Life
