Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts

2022-01-31

"Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law" by Mary Roach


 

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Copyright: 2021
ISBN: 9781324001843

This book is Ms. Roach's seventh, and it is just as delightfully informative and fun to read as all the others.

In Fuzz she investigates the world of interactions between humans and nature. Some of these are extremely funny, while others are rather tragic, and unfortunately it's usually nature that gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop, but not always.

She investigates human interactions with bears, elephants, leopards, macaques, cougars, trees, beans, birds and then goes on to look at what the human animal does to prevent their cousins from doing what they do naturally by digging into how to scare animals away, pest removal, and also gene manipulation.

Like her other books (Grunt, Gulp, Packing for Mars, Bonk, Spook, and Stiff - I'll leave it to you to figure out what they are about), the amount of research she does is absolutely incredible, and the detail that this produces on the page is astounding.

Looking forward to book #8!

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