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Adult Evening Book Discussion

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

2024-11-21 19:00:00 2024-11-21 20:00:00 America/New_York Adult Evening Book Discussion Reed Memorial Library - Haymaker Room

Thursday, November 21
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-21 19:00:00 2024-11-21 20:00:00 America/New_York Adult Evening Book Discussion This adult book discussion group reads fiction and nonfiction books over the course of a month and then discusses those titles at monthly meetings. Reed Memorial Library - Haymaker Room

Reed Memorial Library

Haymaker Room

This adult book discussion group reads fiction and nonfiction books over the course of a month and then discusses those titles at monthly meetings.

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 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.

Limited to 15 people.

Description courtesy of Amazon

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

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Reed Memorial Library

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