But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack. (sciencemag.org)
We report on the eradication of black rats Rattus rattus from Anacapa Island, California, in 2001 — 2002, which was the first - ever invasive rodent eradication from an entire island where an endemic rodent was present and the first aerial application of a rodenticide in North America. (cambridge.org)
On Anacapa Island, the National Park Service eradicated the introduced black rat population that had decimated the population of nesting Scripps's murrelets. (nps.gov)