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Author:
Mary Roach
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
September 14, 2021
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 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.
What The Reviewers Say
Mary Roach is the Deborah Vance of science writing.
Ms. Roach lets us ride in her pocket as she climbs into trucks with laconic wildlife officers, or kneels to puzzle out evidence at a training course on wildlife-attack forensics. She’s apparently fearless—who tries to order the deadly poison ricin online?—and always bemused. She’s Everywoman, gawping and giggling, then zeroing in on the heart of the matter with a satisfying summary—or a bemused shrug.
The author Mary Roach made her reputation for witty, quirky and sometimes gross science writing in a series of snappily titled books.
... fascinating.
