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There may be a surprising reason behind the mysterious blue dogs that were recently spotted roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Photos taken earlier this year showed several dogs with bright blue fur wandering the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine, fueling widespread speculation online, including theories of radiation exposure and mutations.

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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