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For 4 days, this long stream
of small white flakes
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has been leading us toward
our next adventure.
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They are migrating butterflies,
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killed by the radioactivity
of these waters.
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We are in the Pacific Ocean,
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a few miles
from the Bikini atoll.
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Ten years ago,
after the explosion
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of the last American H-bomb,
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a few types of birds
which used to stay
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in their underground nests
only during the brooding,
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learned that,
if they wanted to survive,
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they must no longer come out.
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Such an instinct, caused
by a long forgotten event,
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was transmitted to
the following generations.
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And now these birds, rather
than coming out of their holes,
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let themselves be captured.
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But this is just one sign
of the dramatic alteration
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of the fauna
in this archipelago.
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Everywhere,
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the animals seem to mistrust
their natural habitat.
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Even some fish,
like this particular specimen,
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which can usually
live out of the water
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only for a very short time,
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not only have learned
to leave the polluted
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and radioactive ocean
for many hours a day,
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but they even migrated
to the top of the trees.