Sentences with phrase «n't black rats»

A recent study has mined climatological data to come up with a new explanation for the rapid spread of the disease — it wasn't black rats, after all, who spread the germ via their fleas, but gerbils, taking advantage of a warm and wet spell to run amok.

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In fact, so little mention is made of rats that one English historian proposed that the black death could not have been plague.

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.

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David Bloomfield, who chairs the education department at the College of Staten Island, was not the only education expert who likened the exodus of Black's knowledgeable support staff to rats deserting a sinking ship.

The difference is black rat snakes do not have fangs, just small teeth.

While we didn't separate out the impacts of individual rodent species, previous work shows that black rats (Rattus rattus) threaten the greatest number of species, followed by brown rats (R. norvegicus) and Pacific rats (R. exulans).

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).

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

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.

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

If humans had been able to take responsibility for the black rat population in the 14th century, history would have been spared one of its worst horrors and the rat would not have the evil reputation it has today.

The black rat is a formidable adversary not easily dislodged.

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.

They are particularly vulnerable because they nest in the same cliffs and grottoes that house the black rat population.