Well, there was some of that for sure! I did laugh at various points in this book, because you just can’t keep Mary Roach down.

I anticipated laughter and cuteness and lots of stupid human animal conflict. I fucking love animals! Even the ones most people dislike, like rats and spiders and snakes. And this book sounded so silly! And it’s about animals. I never read her last book, even though I tried and couldn’t get more than ten minutes in before waving the white flag, because reading about warfare and war and its consequences is something that I found actively unpleasant. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.I was so happy when Mary Roach announced this book, because I have been missing her writing. When it comes to problem wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem-and the solution. 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. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque. 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 Himalaya to St. Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and danger tree faller blasters. 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. 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.

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