British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

From there, it was probably carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships.

Predators outside the cane toad's native range include the whistling kite ( Haliastur sphenurus ), the rakali ( Hydromys chrysogaster ), the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) and the water monitor ( Varanus salvator ).

Other fauna present in New Mexico include black bears, cougars, coyotes, porcupines, skunks, Mexican gray wolves, deer, elk, plains bison, collared peccary, bighorn sheep, squirrels, chipmunks, pronghorn, western diamondback, kangaroo rat, jackrabbit and a multitude of other birds, reptiles, and rodents.

" True rats " are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus.

The best-known rat species are the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) and the brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus ).

Many species of rats are island endemics and some have become endangered due to habitat loss or competition with the brown, black or Polynesian rat.

The Black Death is traditionally believed to have been caused by the micro-organism Yersinia pestis, carried by the tropical rat flea ( Xenopsylla cheopis ) which preyed on black rats living in European cities during the epidemic outbreaks of the Middle Ages ; these rats were used as transport hosts.

Pet rats are typically variants of the species brown rat, but black rats and giant pouched rats are also known to be kept.

The black rat ( Rattus rattus ) is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus ( rats ) in the subfamily Murinae ( murine rodents ).

The black rat was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, Systema Naturae, and it still bears its original name of Rattus rattus.

A typical adult black rat is long, including a tail, and weighs.

Despite its name, the black rat exhibits several colour forms.

The black rat also has a scraggly coat of black fur, and is slightly smaller than the brown ( Norway ) rat.

The specific origin of the black rat is uncertain due to the rat's disappearance and reintroduction.

A black rat in the Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany.

The black rat is again largely confined to warmer areas, having been supplanted by the brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) in cooler regions and urban areas.

Another variation called yuanyang ( 鴛鴦, named after the Mandarin duck ) originated in Hong Kong and consists of half black tea and half coffee.

The one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves and been maintained as an attempt to keep the white race pure.

In another example, believing the black rock of the Schlossberg at Stolpen to be the same as Pliny the Elder's basalt, Agricola applied this name to it, and thus originated a petrological term which has been permanently incorporated in the vocabulary of science.

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in black communities in the Southern United States.

Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century, descending from the jigs and march music played by black bands.

The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish / Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (" color black ").

Nunn suspects and announced on 9 November 2005 that a black obsidian rock discovered near Natadola in southwest Viti Levu had originated in the Kutau-Bao obsidian mine on Talasea Peninsula on the island of New Britain, in Papua New Guinea, some 4500 kilometers away.

The Iron Cross () is a cross symbol typically in black with a white or silver outline that originated after 1219 when the Kingdom of Jerusalem granted the Teutonic Order the right to combine the Teutonic Black Cross placed above a silver Cross of Jerusalem.

It was given additional legitimacy ( at least from a European imperialistic perspective ) by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, which granted Portugal exclusive rights to the half of the world where black pepper originated.

Cuvier believed there were three distinct races: the Caucasian ( white ), Mongolian ( yellow ) and the Ethiopian ( black ), Cuvier claimed Adam and Eve were Caucasian and that was the original race of mankind, and the other two races originated by survivors escaping in different directions after a major catastrophe hit the earth 5, 000 years ago, with those survivors then living in complete isolation from each other.

Writer Oliver Wang called the album " a consummate link between generations ", which took the essence of jazz and hip hop, and " showing they originated from the same black center.

Although other designs are also considered to be International African flags or Pan-African flags, the horizontal stripes of red, black, and green, originated by the UNIA in 1920, is the design most often referenced.

Deng's famous “ Cats Theory ” (“ Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat ”), in fact, originated from Liu.

Chinkiang Vinegar, which originated in the city of Zhenjiang in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, is considered the best of the black rice vinegars.

Shaolin Shandong black tiger fist ( Chinese: 黑虎拳, Hei hu quan ) is a northern Chinese martial art which originated in Shandong Province.

Nigga is a term used in Black English Vernacular that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger ( a word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish / Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning the color " black ").

These black and amber colours are where Hull's nickname, The Tigers, originated from.

His interest towards vaudeville plays and the later black musical genre ( including “ coon songs ”) was originated from his work with his fellow peer, Lew Henry, who was also an amateur showman.

Because black musicals were originated from several genres of stage entertainment – the ballad opera, the music extravaganza, the comic opera, the minstrel show, and the variety show – there is a plausible argument that previous nineteenth century black companies created such theatrical plays, and A Trip to Coontown was not the first black musical performed.

The name of the house may have originated from Woiwurrung language, with words of similar pronunciation meaning black crow or reedy swamp.

Carbon black is used as the black pigment in printing ink, artist's oil paint and water colours, carbon paper, automotive finishes, India ink and laser printer toner.

Besides the previously mentioned spices, other commonly found spices in different curry powders in India are allspice, white pepper, ground mustard, ground ginger, cinnamon, roasted cumin, cloves, nutmeg, mace, green cardamom seeds or black cardamom pods, bay leaves and coriander seeds.

In India, the 1988 film Pushpak, starring Kamal Hassan, was a black comedy entirely devoid of dialog.

However, during World War II, the major sources of green tea were cut off from the United States ( due to anti-Japanese sentiment at the time ), leaving them with tea almost exclusively from British-controlled India which produced black tea.

The first two animals to arrive at the park were the Nilgai, an antelope from the plains of North India, and the black and white striped Grant's Zebra, a zebra native to East Africa.

In Chennai, India where one of the largest black markets for organs is known to exist, studies have placed the average sale price at little over $ 1, 000.

Later, he would wash the painting in black India ink to fill in the cracks.

Both genera are native to India, Nepal and Bhutan ; they are recognised by their small seed pods, triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery, outer shell and small black seeds.

In India and Pakistan, black cardamom seeds are often an important component of the Indo-Pakistani spice mixture garam masala.

The largest producer of the black cardamom is Nepal followed by India and Bhutan.

In India, a black snake replaces the wolf and a mongoose replaces the dog.

J. Innes Miller notes that while pepper was grown in southern Thailand and in Malaysia, its most important source was India, particularly the Malabar Coast, in what is now the state of Kerala Peppercorns were a much-prized trade good, often referred to as " black gold " and used as a form of commodity money.

Long pepper, growing in the north-western part of India, was more accessible than the black pepper from further south ; this trade advantage, plus long pepper's greater spiciness, probably made black pepper less popular at the time.

* Gilbert Hill, a monolith column of black basalt rock in Andheri, India

A cartoonist traditionally developed rough sketches into finished pencil drawings and then, for reproduction purposes, completed the artwork in black India ink, using either a brush or a metal-nibbed pen.

For example, the Asian Koels breeding in India have black offspring to resemble their crow hosts, whereas in the Australian Koels the chicks are brown like the honeyeater hosts.

In North India and Pakistan, the caracal is locally known as syahgosh ( स ् य ा हग ो ष / سیاه گوش ) which is a Persian term meaning black ears.

After the lapsang souchong tea was used for producing black tea so called Min Hong ( meaning " Black tea produced in Fujian "), people started to move the tea bush to different places like Keemun, India and Ceylon.

Red Russia / Soviet Union, blue France, light blue United States, violet Britain, black Israel, orange China, yellow India, brown Pakistan, green North Korea and light green ( territories exposed to nuclear bombs )

In India, the courts have upheld the traditions of wearing black and white.

Oral tradition in India maintains that a small piece of either white or black hematite ( or old wootz ) had to be included in each melt, and that a minimum of these elements must be present in the steel for the proper segregation of the micro carbides to take place.

Sloth bears are sympatric with Asiatic black bears in Northern India, and the two species, along with the sun bear, co-exist in some of the national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.