Years ago, I was in the woods with a boyfriend, walking near National Argonne Laboratory, located about 25 miles southwest of Chicago, IL. Argonne is surrounded by Waterfall Glenn Preserve, and it’s campus is lovely. They have for years, perhaps from its inception, had a herd of white deer that roam these woods. We sat down on a log in the woods, resting, and a few of these deer came close to us, they were surprisingly tame, and beautiful. Quite the experience. Another lab, Fermi Lab, is also close to where I live in the western suburbs of Chicago, and it has always had quite a large herd of bison on its campus.
It has always made me wonder why these Labs have these herds of more exotic animals on their grounds. My worst case scenario is that if there are any radiation leaks, they would know by the herds’ demise. Now, I know that is far fetched, however, .....
obviouslly a wonderfully memorable experience the depot where they live here had been a nuclear weapons storage facility for a while and some lesbians had an antiwar encampment next to it that claimed they were white from the radiation... they simple weren't smart enough to know the deer were here decades before there were any nukes on base