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Join us to discuss "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" by Mary Roach. Copies are available at the front desk one month prior to the program. Register online, in person, or by phone at 330.535.9423.
"Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" by Mary Roach
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" - Provided by publisher.
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