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Fuzz - When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
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Fuzz - When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
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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.
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