Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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Publisher Description

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

#1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller

#1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller


A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021


Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction


Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, 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. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. 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. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.

Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2021
September 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
7.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Robert Yule ,

Chapter 6 is missing

Otherwise it is another humorous edition from the mind of ms Roach.

seejackmj ,

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Wonderful, informative and heartbreaking. Leaves us with the question, who will survive?

AndrewmeisterB ,

formatting error, great book

don’t buy this copy, it is formatted incorrectly and not properly aligned - making it a pain to read, I read it on a 2018 macbook pro and bought via iBooks

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