Fuzz when nature breaks the law
"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 T...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A quick word of introduction
- Maul cops : crime scene forensics when the killer isn't human
- Breaking and entering and eating : how do you handle a hungry bear?
- The elephant in the room : manslaughter by the pound
- A spot of trouble : what makes a leopard a man-eater?
- The monkey fix : birth control for marauding macaques
- Mercurial cougars : how do you count what you can't see?
- When the wood comes down : beware the "danger tree"
- The terror beans : the legume as accomplice to murder
- Okay, boomer : futile military actions against birds
- On the road again : jaywalking with the animals
- To scare a thief : the esoteric art of the frightening device
- The gulls of St. Peter's : the Vatican tries a laser
- The Jesuit and the rat : wildlife management tips from the Pontifical Academy for Life
- Killing with kindness : who cares about a pest?
- The disappearing mouse : the scary magic of gene drives
- The fuzzy trespasser : resources for homeowners.
