Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 07:49
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce the native rats into bushland around Sydney's harbourside suburbs.
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