02182cam a2200289 4500 553000942 TxAuBib 20210929120000.0 210320s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021006594 9781324001935 1324001933 (OCoLC)1233265880 LBSOR/DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF CMI OI6 IMT TCH HSA TxAuBib Roach, Mary. Fuzz : when nature breaks the law / Mary Roach. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, 2021. 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308). "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 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. 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. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. 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"--Book jacket flap. 20210929. Human-animal relationships. Animals and civilization. Animal behavior. Wildlife management.