A St.I was so happy when Mary Roach announced this book, because I have been missing her writing.

A Smithsonian 10 Best Science Book of 2021.A Library Journal Best Science & Technology Book of 2021.

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021.A BookPage Best Book of 2021, Nonfiction.A New York Public Library 2021 Best Book of the Year.Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.#1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller.The New York Times called the book 'an idiosyncratic tour with Roach as the wisecracking, ever-probing guide.' The book became an instant New York Times Bestseller and won several awards, including: They were conserved for hunting and fishing.' Reception Wildlife and wilderness weren't conserved for their intrinsic value. 'It wasn't until the 1980s that the word come to mean what it means now. 'Such is the inside-out history of conservation in America,' Roach wrote. This was approximately 1-2 percent of the crow flock and didn't have a noticeable effect on farmer losses. For example, she notes that between 19, an estimated 3.8 million crows were killed in Oklahoma.

Interspersed throughout the book is a history of previous efforts to handle species considered pests, often with poison or explosives. 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 (for an elephant that smells something delicious, small things like doors and walls don't get in their way), and she visits Vatican City to witness lasers set up to guard Easter flowers, after a famous 2017 debacle where gulls destroyed the arrangements. The work mostly follows her first-hand accounts of wildlife researchers on the job. In the book, Roach details many ways humans have tried, often unsuccessfully, to handle animals that might harm humans or damage crops and livestock. Norton & Company, it details the 'curious science of human-wildlife conflict.' Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law is a 2021 nonfiction book by Mary Roach.

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