Black Death from Ratatouille
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Hello, I'm Remy, and this is my brother Emile. Hi. We're here to speak out on behalf of a pressed rat everywhere. Rats who don't have the access to media that our movie of sports came out. Yes, we have to. We rats need to take a stand. You said we'd sing something. You know, joke around. You did not say we were gonna take a stand. It's important. Humans need to know humans need to feed us. That's what you need to do. Leave some garbage out and we won't bother you. Just leave the lid on top. I can lose. All right, all right, moving on. Rattus rattus, the black rat, arrived in the west first, hitching a ride with a returning crusaders. In Europe, finding plenty of filth, grain, filth. Don't forget Phil. And more filth to eat.
The black rat quickly prospered. Wait, wait. This isn't how we rehearsed it. What's the problem? It doesn't go from rats and darkness to rats and death skulls. Oh, well, my script says right now. You've got the flea that rat didn't cause the plague, the flea caused the plague. The flea is the whole point. No, not that one. There it is. That's this girl. Xenopsylla, chiapas, the rat flea. See, this guy here gave the plague to this guy here, a rat. Killing the rat. Once the flea senses the cold dead rat, it prefers to find a warm, live rat. But if a human happens to come along. Well. From 1347 to 1352, to playing for Black Death, killed a third of the population of 14th century Europe. And just as many, if not more rats. So what stopped the plague? No one really knows. Maybe soap, closed sewers, a change in temperature, or some believe this guy. Raddest Norwich 'cause the brown rat better known as the Norway rat.