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Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

An Instant 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

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein recommended the book for its quirky investigations of how nature sometimes "breaks the law," mentioning topics like elephants killing people and killer trees.

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But I'm also reading Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law by the great science writer Mary Roach, which deals with things like what do you do when elephants kill people? And how do you deal with killer tre...

— Episode: Opinion Crossover: California Republican...

Episode: Opinion Crossover: California Republicans, Faceboo...

Ezra Klein recommended the book for its quirky investigations of how nature sometimes "breaks the law," mentioning topics like elephants killing people and killer trees.

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But I'm also reading Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law by the great science writer Mary Roach, which deals with things like what do you do when elephants kill people? And how do you deal with killer trees or bears or cougars, which I assume are issues that you have in California?

Episode: Opinion Crossover: California Republicans, Faceboo...

Ezra Klein recommended the book for its quirky exploration of how nature "breaks the law," from elephants to killer trees.

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I'm also reading Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach, which deals with things like what do you do when elephants kill people and how you deal with killer trees or bears.

99% Invisible

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99% Invisible

'Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law' was described as a bestseller and a fun, engaging read, with a focus on the interactions between humans and wildlife and Mary Roach's signature footnotes.

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Her most recent is the bestseller called fuzz when nature breaks the law

— Episode: Mini-Stories : Volume 12

Episode: Mini-Stories : Volume 12

'Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law' was described as a bestseller and a fun, engaging read, with a focus on the interactions between humans and wildlife and Mary Roach's signature footnotes.

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Her most recent is the bestseller called fuzz when nature breaks the law

It's all about the unpredictable and fraught interactions between humans and wildlife and it's so much fun It's so engaging and like all of your other books.

The book Fuzz is so great, I enjoyed every minute reading it So thank you so much for writing it and for coming on the show

StarTalk Radio

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StarTalk Radio

It explored the concept of applying human laws to animal behavior, illustrating how various animals, from deer to mountain lions, might be considered lawbreakers in a human context.

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So what you've done here, Mary, it's from tells me that you've you've taken laws of civilization as we know it. And then I applied them to animals to see which animals in nature would break laws.

— Episode: Cosmic Queries – Animal Outlaws with Mar...

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Animal Outlaws with Mary Roach

It explored the concept of applying human laws to animal behavior, illustrating how various animals, from deer to mountain lions, might be considered lawbreakers in a human context.

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So what you've done here, Mary, it's from tells me that you've you've taken laws of civilization as we know it. And then I applied them to animals to see which animals in nature would break laws.

Yeah, because animals are I mean, they're basically just being animals. You know, they're they got to eat. They got a crap and they got to find a place to live.

And so they're not really to them. It's not criminal behavior, but they're doing it by breaking and entering by trespassing and sometimes by killing people.

So, you know, you got murder, manslaughter, home invasion with bears. You got trespassing. You got littering vandal jaywalking.

When Nature Breaks the Law.

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