Fuzz

1 About this book

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law is a 2021 nonfiction book by Mary Roach. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, it details the "curious science of human-wildlife conflict." In the book, Roach details many ways humans have tried, often unsuccessfully, to handle animals that might harm humans or damage crops and livestock.

The work mostly follows her first-hand accounts of wildlife researchers on the job.

For example, Roach follows Colorado Parks and Wildlife when they get called in after bears break into restaurant dumpsters late at night (a hyperphagic black bear, Roach notes, can consume double or triple its usual amount of calories), she tags along as the Wildlife Institute of India holds meetings to warn residents about migrating elephants (which will break through walls and doors to find the sources of enticing food scents), and she visits Vatican City to witness lasers set up to guard Easter flowers, after a famous 2017 debacle in which gulls destroyed the arrangements.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: science and nature.

• Zoology
• Human-animal relationships
• Science
• Nature
• Animals
• Animal behavior