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While the contamination of deer and roe deer decreased over time as expected, the measured levels of radioactivity in the meat of wild boar remained surprisingly high — higher than the half-life of cesium would suggest. For many years, this ‘wild boar paradox’ was considered unsolved. Now an explanation has been found: It is a late aftermath of the nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.