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Park service officials maintain that the eradication of black rats from the three islets that make up Anacapa Island is necessary to save the rare Xantus» murrelet from extinction.

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Believed to have originally come to Europe from Asia via the Silk Road trading route, it was thought that the repeated plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death epidemic were caused by rodent reservoirs in Europe — bacteria - infested fleas hiding out in rats.

It is hoped that individuals from the breeding population will eventually be reintroduced to Lord Howe Island, providing black rats can be successfully eradicated from the island.

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They cover the Black Rat, the Brown Rat, and the Black Death, from their perspective.

Other American rat snakes, which range in color from yellow to black to grey to greenish, can be variable in personality, with some of them being little assassins.

Jack Black was a popular rat catcher from Victorian England who was often accompanied by his furry helper.

Invasive mammalian predators (clockwise from top left): feral dog, house mouse, stoat, feral pig, feral cat, brushtail possum, black rat, small Indian mongoose and red fox (centre).

Three dogs from the Jackson County Animal Shelter — a black Lab mix, a rat terrior mix and a German shepherd mix — arrived Wednesday night.

Two standouts from Asia are the Mandarin ratsnake, a small and stunning beauty with a striking black and yellow pattern against a grey background, and Ridley's cave ratsnake, a large but sweetly dispositional snake with a silvery grey color and a propensity for eating bats (don't worry, they adjust beautifully to a diet of rat pups).

Once an island with no natural predators for nesting birds, invasive non-native black rats were inadvertently introduced to the island from ships visiting the islands in the 1940's.

In addition, they have also suffered from human disturbances and in the past, introduced black rats on Anacapa Island.

A U.S. magistrate has found a Santa Barbara environmental activist not guilty of violating federal law two years ago, when he allegedly fed black rats on Anacapa Island vitamin pellets to counteract poison that park rangers dropped from helicopters to exterminate the rodents.

The National Park Service began poisoning black rats last year to prevent the rodents from feeding on the eggs of endangered seabirds.

A bus driver and environmental activist from Santa Barbara, Puddicombe is an uncommon crusader with an unusual obsession — saving the black rats of the Channel Islands.

The black rat eats whatever it can, scurrying up cliffs, stealing eggs from under flustered parents, and sometimes rolling them down bluffs to save for later.

Along with killing off black rats, the first phase of the eradication effort killed nearly 50 birds from 11 different species, Faulkner said.

Efforts to eradicate the black rat population from the East Anacapa islet were successful, Faulkner said.

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.

«Letters From America» at Black Rat (London) 3.