Jurassic Chernobyl?

I did a doubletake while listening to a radio news report yesterday. Apparently the area around Chernobyl has become a rich haven for increasingly varied wildlife since the radiation zone has largely been vacated by humans. The story continued that some species of animal long absent from this region had been seen, for example lynx. While noting that no sign of the 50s Science Fiction movie staple "three eyed monsters" or their cousins had been seen, I began to wonder how many generations it would take for these critters to breed into strongly radiation resistant mutants. What really caught my attention though was an idea apparently floated by the government that the "zone" might become a hunting reserve where people would pay for the privilege of going after whatever lurks there. That suddenly sounded a lot like a movie about a 'preserve of dinosaurs'...a movie that ended badly. A related story a month or so ago talked about thriving fungus in the heart of Chernobyl living by a process equivalent to photosynthesis where the radiation replaces the sunlight. Hmmmm......Is that a rust fungus on that lynx? What caliber shotgun do I use for that?