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A History of St. Louis Gangsters: A Chronology of Mob Activity on Both Sides of the River Ranging from the Egan Rats to the Last Mob Leader on Record. The National Criminal Research Society. 2002. ISBN 097-1340-900; English, T.J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-059002-5
Dunn had violated a cardinal rule of the Egan's Rats, by killing someone on the premises of Tom Egan's saloon. Because Willie Egan was a good friend of Dunn's, the gangster's life was spared. Cherries Dunn signed on with the old Bottoms Gang , and continued to rob and kill with no abandon.
Individual rats would rarely eat except in the company of other rats. As a result extreme population densities developed in the pen adopted for eating, leaving the others with sparse populations. In the experiments in which the behavioral sink developed, infant mortality ran as high as 96 percent among the most disoriented groups in the population.
The Black Death is traditionally believed to have been caused by the microorganism 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.
Through systematic research, he debunked the myth that there was one rat per person in New York City and placed the rat population at around 250,000. [3] Davis also researched the spread of the bubonic plague through rodents. [4] He later became a professor at Pennsylvania State University, then chairman of zoology at North Carolina State ...
Some prisoners reported killing and eating rats after a prison kitchen was demolished on January 10, 1864, and food shortages resulted, but the reports appear to be dubious. [113] [127] General Orme obtained some Union army overcoats outside of channels and distributed them to prisoners. But when Colonel Hoffman learned of his actions, he ...
The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people, [16] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign. Although the sparrow campaign ended in disaster, the other three anti-pest campaigns may have contributed to the improvement in the health statistics in ...