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A review by daumari
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
4.0
whoops this is overdue but hey, I have the day off so I can binge today.
Fuzz is the most recent of Mary Roach's monosyllabic popular science works, but the subtitle feels a little misleading because it's not so much nature breaking laws as being nuisances to humans (often when humans encroach on space previously occupied by wildlife). The opening chapter on wildlife forensics does fit the title, but then we go on to examine elephants and macaques in India, whether or not birds are pests (and the futile efforts to eradicate them in spaces which is then reversed when considering introduced mammals in New Zealand). Plants are not exempt: tree falls and poisonous compounds are also described here.
Fuzz is the most recent of Mary Roach's monosyllabic popular science works, but the subtitle feels a little misleading because it's not so much nature breaking laws as being nuisances to humans (often when humans encroach on space previously occupied by wildlife). The opening chapter on wildlife forensics does fit the title, but then we go on to examine elephants and macaques in India, whether or not birds are pests (and the futile efforts to eradicate them in spaces which is then reversed when considering introduced mammals in New Zealand). Plants are not exempt: tree falls and poisonous compounds are also described here.