Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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One of Bookpages Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join Americas funniest science writer (Peter Carlson Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Whats to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators human-elephant conflict specialists bear managers and danger tree faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peters Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way Roach reveals as much about humanity as about natures lawbreakers. Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows langur impersonators and mugging macaques Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
