The islands are also home to a colony of Black Rats, which may originally have come ashore from a shipwreck.

Rats may have transmitted disease or competed directly with the white-footed rabbit rat.

It is thought that Black rats inadvertently introduced by the expedition infected the Maclear's Rats with a disease ( possibly a Trypanosome ), which in turn may have contributed to the species decline.

On January 21, 2010, it was reported that negotiations may be in the works for the owner of the Checkers to buy the Albany River Rats, the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes.

Some may notice that the series has many similarities in setting and atmosphere to Watership Down ( which was also produced by Funbag and Helix ) and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH ( and its animated counterpart The Secret of NIMH ).

Rats, cats and Barn Owls have reduced the lizard population on which the kestrels depend and they may take eggs and chicks.

Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.

The inner spread ' infra-red ' photography is by Ed Caraeff, whose Beefheart vacuum cleaner images from this session also appear on Zappa's Hot Rats release ( a month earlier ) to accompany " Willie The Pimp " lyrics sung by Vliet.

Beefheart also provided vocals for " Willie the Pimp " on Zappa's otherwise instrumental album Hot Rats ( 1969 ).

Nyarlathotep is also mentioned in " The Rats in the Walls " as a faceless god in the caverns of earth's center.

In Hollywood, Rafferty also appeared in Australian themed films, including The Desert Rats, The Sundowners and Mutiny on the Bounty.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

Among other roles, Cooper was Clemency Warlock in Cynara ( 1930 ), Wanda Heriot in The Pelican ( 1931 ), Lucy Haydon in Dr Pygmalion ( 1932 ), Carola in The Firebird ( 1932 ), Jane Claydon in The Rats of Norway ( 1933 ), Mariella Linden in The Shining Hour in 1934 and 1935, in London and New York and on tour ( at the same time making her first " talkie " film, The Iron Duke ), also playing Desdemona and Lady Macbeth on Broadway in 1935.

Rats are also widely used for physiology, toxicology and cancer research, but genetic manipulation is much harder in rats than in mice, which limits the use of these rodents in basic science.

He is also a Past King Rat of the show business charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.

He also toured with Carmine Appice, Moxy and The Good Rats.

Rats also posed a problem.

At the end there is also a discussion between Death and the Death of Rats over what the Death of Rats should " ride ", Death suggests a dog while the Death of Rats suggests a cat.

Rats have also been introduced, but despite this, the island has a great deal of marine life, including penguins of various kinds.

He also worked extensively in television, directing episodes of series including Special Squad, Return to Eden II, The Man from Snowy River and Water Rats.

The Death of Rats, also known as the Grim Squeaker, is not, strictly speaking, a personification in his own right but rather an aspect of Death allowed an independent existence.

The Death of Rats also appears in Discworld Noir.

Sherissa, the near immortal leader of the wererat clans, Gothwrain her thrall, servant and apparent enemy, and also three young warriors / assassins collectively known by fans as the Mall Rats ( Gold Digger ): Lydia McKraken, Romeo Ellis and Moisha Rich.

In addition, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk and the City of Wellington pipe band.

The Mall Rats also have to defend themselves against outside enemies.

The peninsula is also home to kangaroos, wallabies, Koalas, Long-nosed Potoroos, White-footed Dunnarts, Broad-toothed Rats, Feather-tailed Gliders and Emus.

Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls " makes reference to Trimalchio, reading, " There was a vision of a Roman feast like that of Trimalchio, with a horror in a covered platter.

Somewhere near King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Nona takes him to a graveyard, where he encounters a possibly supernatural force, and is later found alone by the authorities, taken into custody, tried, and sentenced to prison, where he now writes his tale, preparing to commit suicide as he contemplates hearing strange sounds in the walls ( not unlike H. P. Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls ", or King's own earlier work, " Jerusalem's Lot ").

The novels Rats and Gargoyles ( 1990 ), The Architecture of Desire ( 1991 ), and Left to His Own Devices ( 1994 ), together with several short stories, form a loosely linked series ( collected in White Crow in 2003 ).

Rats were given equal inhalation doses of conventional tobacco cigarettes and kreteks over a short period.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

In Desert Rats ( 1953 ), Burton plays a young English captain in the North African campaign during World War II who takes charge of a hopelessly out-numbered Australian unit against the indomitable Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ( James Mason ).

Studies on Grey-faced Petrels breeding on New Zealand's Whale Island ( Moutohora ) have shown that a population under heavy pressure from Norway Rats will produce virtually no young during a breeding season, whereas if the rats are controlled ( through the use of poison ), breeding success is much higher.

Some of the artists Otis performed and recorded with during that time include Frank Zappa ( having played electric bass on " Peaches en Regalia " on the 1969 album Hot Rats ), Etta James, Eddie Vinson, Richard Berry, Louis Jordan, and Bobby ' Blue ' Bland, among many others.

Madden led the Rats in scoring during the 1998 – 99 season, setting team records for assists ( 60 ) and points ( 98 ).

Groups who formed during the emergence of Punk rock in the mid-late 1970s included U2, Virgin Prunes, The Boomtown Rats, The Undertones, Aslan, Gavin Friday, and Stiff Little Fingers.

**" Rats " is about the 16th century decision by the then Pope to declare the semi-aquatic capybara as fish for Catholics to eat during lent.

It was the location of the Barrière des Rats, a gate built for the collection of taxation as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General ; the gate was built between 1784 and 1788 and demolished during in 1840.

* White Roaches and the Rats -- two groups of vermin who acquired human characteristics during the Big Bang, they are now large, intelligent, and ( especially in the case of the White Roaches ) hostile.

* Tobruk, which tells the story of The Rats of Tobruk as they fought during World War II against Italian troops, then later the Afrika Korps, as they were led by then-General Erwin Rommel.

The Wharf Rats began during the 1980s as a group of Deadheads under the name " The Wharf Rat Group of Alcoholics Anonymous ".

Liquid Sunday played on the same bill for one show with Pearcy during the summer of 2006 and later formed a new band called Dirty Rats, consisting of Croucier on bass and lead vocals, Carlos Cavazo on guitar, and John Medina on drums.

The new line-up played a series of gigs at the Splash Club ( at the Water Rats in King's Cross ) during May and June 1994.

Rats have been exposed to continuous artificial gravity of 1 g during Russian biosatellite missions lasting two weeks.

* Major General Graham Binns CBE DSO MC, the former General Officer Commanding the 1st Armoured Division ( United Kingdom ) and prior to this was the brigadier who commanded the 7th Armoured Brigade ( the " Desert Rats ") during Operation Telic 1 ( the 2003 invasion of Iraq ) when they took Basra.

As a top scorer with the AHL's Albany River Rats ( the Devils affiliate at the time ) in the season, Dowd made impressive appearances with the Devils, collecting 5 goals and 10 assists in 15 regular season games, and 2 goals and 6 assists in 19 games during their playoff run.

He played for their affiliate, the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League ( AHL ) during the 2004 – 2005 lockout.

He made his NHL debut with the Devils during the 1993 – 94 NHL season, though the majority of the season was spent in the AHL with the Albany River Rats.

Rats that were exposed to pulsed noise during the critical period had cortical neurons that were less able to respond to repeated stimuli ; the early auditory environment interrupted normal structural organization during development.

In the earlier phase of his career, during mid-1970s, he recorded and toured with The Tymes and Ben E. King, playing keyboards, bass, guitar and trombone, subsequently, in the late 1970s, he was musical director for Edwin Starr and, during early 1980s, worked with Duran Duran, the Boomtown Rats, Dexys Midnight Runners, Bucks Fizz, Haircut One Hundred and the Rolling Stones.

He appeared mostly in low-budget action and martial arts films such as Jungle Rats ( 1987 ), and Black Fire ( 1985 ), during the 80's, often directed by Teddy Page and John Gale ( director ).

Hodges also takes the mick which can be seen especially during the season 7 episode " Lab Rats " in which Greg ends up covered in spaghetti sauce and asks what the techs are doing.