Aftermath: Population Zero Page #4

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many more will survive this year.

At night, birds use

the stars to navigate.

With the power on, lights and

glowing skyscrapers resemble stars,

so birds often circle them al

night and die of exhaustion.

But in a world without

humans, there is no power,

so migrating birds fly more

safely through major cities.

Millions will reach their destinations.

Their population will boom.

On city streets, dogs have

gone from pets to predators.

Within a week of losing

their human masters,

they're forming packs and

fighting for dominance.

Which hasn't happened since 2005,

when Hurricane Katrina forced

humans to evacuate New Orleans

and leave many dogs behind.

The dogs started hunting in packs

and threatening humans.

But not all dogs are equal.

With more than 400 different breeds,

some varieties, like this poodle, don't

have the size or strength to compete.

And like wolves, dogs

will kill their own,

so every small dog is a potential meal.

In the next few weeks, most

smaller dogs will be killed.

At nuclear power plants,

diesel generators are

finally running out of fuel.

The power goes off for good

inside the spent fuel buildings.

The cool water stops flowing.

The temperature starts to rise.

In just a few days,

the water will boil and evaporate.

And without people to stop it,

a nuclear disaster greater than the

world has ever seen is now inevitable.

A massive dose of radiation,

500 times greater than what was

unleashed on Hiroshima, will be released.

Dogs from the city are roaming

the countryside looking for food.

And they're hungry enough

to try just about anything,

even corpses.

The fields are littered

with dead dairy cows.

When we were around, dairy cows

provided us with milk for 8000 years.

Now, their rotting carcasses

will do nothing more

than sustain hungry dogs,

who just two weeks ago were probably

eating comfortably from a can.

Not all cows are dead.

In the wide-open spaces

of western North America,

free-range cattle are thriving.

But the same can't be said for the

domesticated animals trapped in pens.

1.5 billion chickens

have died in the US,

leaving only free-range poultry to

roam among a world full of predators.

Death is in the air.

A time bomb ticks.

This world without humans is

about to suffer devastating blows.

Ten days after humans

disappear from the Earth,

the power is off.

Cities are quiet.

Animals that escaped from

zoos and safari parks roam free

but fight to survive.

Predators are a problem,

but we left behind other deadly forces.

For days, super-heated

steam has been escaping

from the spent fuel building

of this nuclear power plant.

With no emergency power,

there's nothing to keep

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