What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous
tree? Three hundred years ago animals that broke the law would be assigned legal
representation and put on trial. These days 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. Intrepid as ever 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. She taste-tests rat bait learns how to install a vulture effigy and gets
mugged by a macaque. Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a
motley cast of laser scarecrows langur impersonators and trespassing squirrels Roach reveals
as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. When it comes to problem wildlife she
finds humans are more often the problem-and the solution. Fascinating witty and humane Fuzz
offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
