What\'s 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.
What\'s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A.
Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
When it comes to problem wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem--and the solution.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature\'s lawbreakers.
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 travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St.
What\'s 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
