Ratings52
Average rating3.8
Humour, environmental awareness, scientific (and just general) curiousity, pragmatism tempered by ethics. Roach is not afraid to talk about the icky or the sad. Unfortunately there's a good deal of both; while the title made me think ‘funny animal videos', the reality is ‘managing human-wildlife conflict'.
Informative, just not as fluffy as I was hoping.
I appreciated the consultation of experts, researchers, engineers, in the field, office, lab and archives, clear facts tempered with hilarity.
Sometimes straight reportage of what comes out of the outdoorsman's or bureaucrat's mouth is the funniest shit, sometimes its the author's off the wall asides or observations. [Don't skip the footnotes!]
General warning for fellow vegans, there's a fair amount of animal experimentation and death throughout.