“What is the proper course when wild animals break laws intended for people?” So asks Roach in a book that, in the author’s characteristic style, ranges widely, from wild animal attacks to the inherent dangers of certain plants to ways in which we have treated animals that most humans consider vermin. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.Ī yellow book cover for 'Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law' by Mary Roach has a nature scout arrowhead-shaped emblem depicting animals in the wild.Tracing the line between wildlife and the law, the acclaimed science writer examines how humans interact with the natural world. When it comes to 'problem' wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem-and the solution. Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers by combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels.

Peter's Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalayas to St. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque. Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and 'danger tree' faller blasters. The curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.

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