She also tackles the ethics of eradicating pests by mass poisoning or altering their genetics. They, along with leopards, bears, deer and others, can also kill people. Elephants routinely destroy people’s crops and homes. Roach highlights how much real pain comes from human-animal interactions. I wanted to know what it was like to be mugged by monkeys.”īut it’s not all fun and reindeer games. She even engineers a robbery: “I had bananas. She tastes rat bait to better understand its allure and gets training on how to tell if a human body was mauled by a bear or by a human pretending to be a bear. The book brims with Roach’s irreverent humor, which particularly shines when she experiences human-animal conflict firsthand. Through such examples, Roach tackles this question: What should we do when animals break laws intended for people? Nature’s perp list also includes camels, mountain lions, crows and many more. In Colorado, bears break and enter, raiding the refrigerators of mountain homes. On the Midway Islands, albatrosses carry out suicide missions against the U.S. In her latest book, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, Mary Roach puts the spotlight on these miscreants. These villains can’t be arrested - because they’re not human. Around the world, criminals run free in the forest.
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