Sentences with phrase «black rats on»

However, back in days of the «Black Death», control of the contagion involved quarantining the offending ship, keeping the black rats on board with their plague ridden fleas.

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.

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

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Native animals are declining on Australia's second largest island with brush - tailed rabbit - rats, black - footed tree - rats and northern brown bandicoots the worst hit.

1 The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the Norway rat, and its more acrobatic Asian cousin, the black rat (Rattus rattus), enjoy a nearly worldwide distribution, thanks to their skill at stowing away on ships.

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.

«Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa: New technologies provide evidence in the debate on when and how Asian fauna was introduced to Africa.»

A review published in 2012 in Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine reports that black and yellow maca improve sperm count and sperm motility in male rats, and red maca extract has a positive impact on the quality of embryos in female mice.

Her hose are community free dating site for couples job not plague, also known as the Black Death, was caused by fleas living on infected rats.

The world record in rat baiting was held by Jacko, a black and tan bull terrier who managed to kill 100 rats in 5 minutes and 28 seconds on 1 May 1862.

The black rats were a major disruption to the local wildlife on Anacapa Island and are still a problem on San Miguel Island.

At Anacapa, introduced black rats preyed heavily on seabird eggs and chicks severely depleting populations of Scripps's murrelets.

On Anacapa Island, the National Park Service eradicated the introduced black rat population that had decimated the population of nesting Scripps's murrelets.

Trophic roles of black rats and seabird impacts on tropical islands: Mesopredator release or hyperpredation?.

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

The birds are the innocents, not built for survival on an island where black rats were introduced as predators.

Riding the waves on a makeshift raft, black rats huddle until the shoreline looms.

Faulkner said the black rat eradication on East Anacapa also served to preserve populations of certain reptiles and amphibians.

The black rat is not in danger of extinction, and the eradication of the population on Anacapa will not endanger the species.

According to «Animal Activist Finds Himself in Rat's Nest of Legal Trouble» (Dec. 15), the black rats, Rattus rattus, that Rob Puddicombe tried to rescue on Anacapa Island are known primarily as urban nuisances.

Among the eggs the rats like to munch are those of the petite, black and white Xantus's murrelet, which nests only on Santa Barbara and Anacapa islands and is a candidate for listing as a threatened species, officials say.

That plan involved killing off the murrelet's last unnatural predator on the island: the nonnative black rat, which biologists suspect crashed the island's fragile ecosystem in a shipwreck decades ago.

«The black rat was the last nonnative animal on this island,» said Kate Faulkner, chief of resource management for the park, as she hiked up the rugged path toward Inspiration Point on a recent media tour of the island.

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.

Emily Wardill's exhibition «Matt Black and Rat» opens January 20 at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, and is on view through March 26, 2017

The solo exhibition Due Date by Brian Adam Douglas (interviewed) opened on Thursday 9 March to a full house at London's Black Rat Projects.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, European explorers unintentionally carried black rats (Rattus rattus) and brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) on their ships as they visited new lands, eventually introducing the two species to every continent but Antarctica.

In his book, «Rats, Lice, and History,» H. Zinsser speaks of the outbreak of St Vitus» Dance, strange seizures attributed to the terror of The Black Death, «mass hysterias brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished and wretched» to a degree unknown in the western world today.