Egg Addling: Controlling Canada Goose Population

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This chapter focuses on the practice of egg addling to control Canada goose population. It delves into the difficulties and complexities involved in timing the process correctly, as well as the aggressive behavior of the geese during egg addling. The chapter also touches on the challenge of writing humorously and finding interesting material.

Mary Roach is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.

"In these realms of the taboo, there's a tremendous amount of material that is really interesting, but that people have stayed away from. ... I'm kind of a bottom feeder. It's down there on the bottom where people don't want to go. But if that's what it takes to find interesting, new material, I'm fine with it. I don't care. I'm not easily grossed out. I don't feel that there's any reason why we shouldn't look at this. And over time, I started to feel that ... the taboo was preventing people from having conversations that it would be healthy to have."

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