Assertion: brown rat | /r/CapableOf | displace black rat
Facets:
value: in europe
type: LOCATION
value: by eating their young
type: MANNER
value: in the uk
type: LOCATION
value: almost everywhere
type: LOCATION
value: in areas
type: LOCATION
value: in america
type: LOCATION
value: almost completely
type: MANNER
value: generally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As it spread from Asia, the brown rat generally displaced the black rat in areas where humans lived.
text: Today, Norway rats have almost completely replaced black rats in Europe and America, where black rats are now rare or absent in much of their former range.
text: As in Europe, Norway rats displaced black rats (Krinke 2000).
text: In the UK the Brown Rat has replaced the Black Rat almost everywhere while in North America both Black and Brown Rats still are common.
text: Brown rats arrived in the UK 1730 from the Baltic, having originated in China and soon displaced the Black Rat by eating their young.