Thread:Ralok/@comment-5607198-20130601133954/@comment-5607198-20130602035549

i still havent seen proof (beyond your harping about the size of the fetus, which isn't proof because that game object has more than one size), that plague rats are different from bullrats. the speculation only mentions a difference between plague rats and normal rats, and that the plague rats are new.

the reason Galvani hides his experiment is because he is vivisecting (live dissection) the rat, which is shown to be illegal in Dunwall, in one of the notes in his house. Sokolov is given license to pursue all manner of scientific research, even stuff that is declared illegal, because of his prominence and importance to the regime. Galvani clearly is not. the fetuses are less problematic because they're dead. kill the mother and you're in clear, as it were.

Please note, I'm not saying you are wrong, just that you have no solid proof, and in the absence of proof, nothing can be said.

however, in my own investigation, The Rat Plague came up. In it, he refers to "the foreign, plague-bearing rats". note the punctuation. It denotes that the plague rats are in fact foreign to Dunwall. Were the comma not there, we could infer that there are plague rats both native AND fohttp://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:20419reign. Furthermore, in other items, we are told that bull rats will eat smaller rats (as well as any other source of meat), and that it is smarter than the average rat. These same traits are attributed to the plague rat.

consider the real world: when a non-native species is introduced, without any inhibition to its growth, it becomes invasive and can destroy an ecosystem (the kudzu vine and chinese snakehead fish are two well-known examples). Is it not possible that, given a new environment free of their normal predators, the bullrats supercede the native population?

I also cannot find any reference to a single rat consuming an entire person in the manner of a rat swarm. Sokolov's note on bull rats does mention it ate corpse-flesh, but does not give the idea that it consumed the entire body.

here are the rest of my sources.

http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Galvani%27s_Speculation

http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rat_Plague_%28book%29

http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Behavior_and_Extermination

http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Pandyssian_Bull_Rat_Study

http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Feeding_Log