Going off to do field work

The blog is taking a brief hiatus while I travel, hoping to do some reporting on the scourge of crows in Tokyo.  I suggest two ways to use your free bad-animal-reading time:

 This lengthy article in the New York Times (and this followup) about our friend the Tampa Mystery Monkey,

 And speaking of mystery, The Sloth's Eye is finally available as a very reasonably priced ebook at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You can read more about it at my website. It's a mystery that centers on a bad animal - perhaps the people turn out to be worse, but after all, it's fiction. Please support my lonely efforts to tell the world the truth about bad animals!

(Oh, and for some less wordy fun: Have you caught up lately with the Animals Behaving Badly Tumblr?)