A long-eared owl sits on a fir branch near the 30 km (18 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in town of Khoiniki, some 350 km (219 miles) southeast of Minsk February 4, 2009. Wildlife in the exclusion zone has been teeming despite radiation, since people left the area around Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear disaster, keepers of the ecological reserve said. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS)