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Well, camera traps showed that after the invasion, mammals inside the exclusion zone spent less time moving around at night. And the changes were discovered by comparing video footage gathered from the early months of 2022. The Russian invasion with that of footage from the same time of a year ago, so they're doing a comparison. And they can see the animals are starting to act differently at different times of the day. The findings were published in the journal Science June 18. And the study covered the Chernobyl of exclusion zone, which is approximately 1,000 miles, square, or 2,600 square kilometers. And over the decade, there was a little human activity, but wildlife managed to force which transformed the area into a natural laboratory.