Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. Nowadays, as a popular writer Mary Roach has discovered, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in the science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict.
Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers... 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.

Mary Roach. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law / Translated from English by Galina Borodina. Scientific Editor Mikhail Nikitin. Editor Oleg Bocharnikov.— Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2025.