Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Ever since the nuclear disaster of 1986, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has taken on a second life as an animal haven of sorts. Between 1998 and 2004, scientists began to introduce the endangered Przewalski’s horse, the world’s last truly wild equine species, into the zone. Camera traps show the horses routinely using abandoned barns and buildings in the Exclusion Zone.