Most of us, who live in urban areas don’t really have to deal with a lot of wildlife and will find these tidbits of information slightly amusing but otherwise kind of pointless. Roach visits wildlife experts in various fields and talks a lot about how to prevent bears from getting into trashcans. The bulk of the book has more to do with animal control across various nations and climates than anything to do with “breaking the law.” We learn about a couple of historical cases and a handful of anectodotal stories but most of the book is just barely tangible to the concept. This idea of animals breaking the law is treated very loosely throughout Fuzz. Particularly after Grunt, I sure learned a lot from that book about military science. Sorry, Mary, I’ve just gotten used to holding you to a much higher standard. It’s still a well written piece of literary journalism, it just turns out that this concept doesn’t quite fill a full book. Mary Roach sets out to answer these questions in the first of her books that I’ve given fewer than 5/5 stars. Are they held responsible? Who is the judge? Can we judge animals by our sets of morals to begin with? What happens when animals break man’s law? Say an elephant commits murder or a squirrel commits theft. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by author Mary Roach
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