2022-04-05 17:10
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2022-03-16 21:42
By Merlin Tuttle 3/16/2022 By illustrating scientific discoveries with spectacular photography, we equip others worldwide to overcome fear and inspire […]
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2021-12-28 17:45
12/28/2021 By Merlin Tuttle The series Curious Kids, hosted by The Conversation, is designed to provide expert answers to questions […]
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2021-11-02 20:30
10-30-21Merlin Tuttle and Danielle Cordani Many who work with bats have been impacted by efforts to prevent the spread of […]
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2021-09-18 23:03
9-20-21Merlin Tuttle I had mixed feelings while watching the September 15, 2021 airing of PBS’ NOVA program, Bat Superpowers: Could the […]
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2021-08-30 23:52
Teresa Nichta 8/30/21 We surprised Merlin – yes, actually surprised – with a birthday celebration for his 80th birthday on […]
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2021-07-17 22:21
By Merlin Tuttle7/9/21 Inner Space Cavern, located in Georgetown, Texas, has become a bat education center thanks to cooperative tricolored […]
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2021-06-25 13:12
By Merlin Tuttle 6/24/21 For more than a century, Australia’s flying foxes have been misunderstood, hated, and persecuted. Targeted for […]
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2021-06-18 23:45
By Merlin Tuttle6/18/21 Calvin Butchkoski wasn’t privileged to attend graduate school. In fact, he never even took a course in […]
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2021-06-12 00:06
Take Action BY 5:00 PM CDT, JUNE 15! By Merlin Tuttle6/11/2021 The survival of ten million straw-colored fruit bats may […]
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2021-05-06 23:02
5/6/21Merlin Tuttle Observations of heat-stressed, sometimes dead bats associated with bat houses, have led to unfortunate speculation that bat houses […]
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2021-04-23 15:31
4/23/21 Merlin Tuttle Caves are a critical resource for America’s bats. But thousands are no longer available for bats. Early […]
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2021-04-09 22:46
4/9/2021 By Teresa Nichta The Bat Scan Project provides photo documentation, enabling a growing number of conservation projects and exhibits […]
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2021-04-05 23:34
The World Health Organization’s recent report on COVID-19 speculates a bat origin. However, its findings are seriously flawed and questioned […]
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2021-03-17 23:46
3/16/21By Merlin D. Tuttle Early evidence pointed to great apes1 and humans2 as possible sources of Ebola, but they were assumed to […]
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2021-03-02 19:22
By Merlin Tuttle3/2/21 Given overall warming trends, we weren’t surprised to see some 70 to 80° F days in January […]
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2021-02-20 21:00
The Last Week Tonight with John Oliver February 15th episode shared misguided speculations about bats. Here is Merlin’s public letter […]
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2021-02-08 23:22
Many thanks to all who responded to last week’s Bat Flash. We were copied on emails and are delighted to […]
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2021-01-28 18:37
01/28/21 By Merlin Tuttle USA Today’s January 17 story, Where did Covid-19 come from? leads with the following statement “The […]
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2020-12-13 16:54
12/13/2020By Ralph Simon In October of 2011, Merlin, his wife Paula, and I, accompanied by National Geographic science writer Susan […]
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2020-11-03 21:53
11/2/2020 By Merlin Tuttle I viewed the National Geographic documentary series titled, “Virus Hunters,” with substantial disappointment. Warnings of growing […]
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2020-10-05 18:39
9/15/2020 By Danielle Cordani The avalanche of speculative reports associating bats with COVID-19 seems never ending. At a time of […]
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2020-09-14 15:27
Nearly 40 Years of Progress and Still Learning By Merlin Tuttle 09/14/2020 Bat houses are outstanding tools for education. When […]
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2020-09-03 20:50
09/03/20By Merlin Tuttle Life Upside Down Australia’s Grey-headed flying-foxes Leading wildlife photographer and conservationist, Doug Gimesy, has teamed up with […]
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2020-08-13 19:53
08/13/2020 By Merlin Tuttle A study published July 28th in Nature Microbiology titled, “Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 lineage responsible for the COVID-19 [&hel&hell…Read More
2020-07-18 02:18
A disappointing number of authors and publishers are spreading the false narrative that bats are exceptionally high-risk sources of deadly […]
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2020-06-16 20:16
Response to CNN Program “Bats—The Mystery Behind COVID-19″ 6/16/2020By Merlin Tuttle I applaud Anderson Cooper for his attempt to improve […]
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2020-05-30 00:54
May 29, 2020 By Merlin Tuttle and Danielle Cordani Wrong approaches in defense of bats can be even worse than […]
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2020-04-16 00:03
4/15/2020By Teresa Nichta This rainy February, we visited Los Cedros Biological Reserve in Ecuador. Roo Vandegrift, and crew, are filming […]
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2020-03-11 16:05
By Paula Tuttle3/11/20
Merlin and I recently spent an especially… Read More
2020-02-19 19:36
2/19/20By Merlin Tuttle
For me, our trip highlight was the visit… Read More
2020-02-16 00:47
12/26/19By Daniel Hargreaves
We arrived at sunset at the OurLand Nature Reserve in Kanchanaburi Province, our ho… Read More
2020-01-30 22:09
By Merlin Tuttle1/30/20
The source of human exposure to Wuhan vi… Read More
2020-01-21 22:24
1/21/20
By Daniel Hargreaves
Several hours after leaving the painted bat village, we arrived at the Wat Chantara… Read More
2020-01-21 20:50
1/24/20By Daniel Hargreaves
Following a 6-hour road journey from Bangkok we arrived at our first destination, th… Read More
2019-12-19 20:44
By Merlin Tuttle
12/19/19
A December 8 Reuters press release, titled “Health experts warn of emerging threat of Nipah virus,” reported on a two-day Nipah conference in Singa… Read More
2019-11-07 22:49
The 49th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 23-26, 2019. It was hosted by Amy Russell and Maarten Vonhofm amidst a quintessential Midw… Read More
2019-09-25 17:34
By Merlin Tuttle
9/25/19
Long Cave, in Kentucky, like many others, has a long history of human occupation with little record of prior use by bats. It was mined for saltpeter, a key ingredie… Read More
2019-07-22 19:09
7/22/19
By Merlin Tuttle
Two grey-headed flying foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus, hang form a tree branch during a rain shower.Doug Gimesy ranks among the very best when it comes to wildlife p… Read More
2019-07-12 22:32
7/12/2019
By Merin Tuttle
Amid media announcements of WNS spread to California, and growing public concern, The Wildlife Society announced the most recent attempt to find a cure. On July 9… Read More
2019-07-12 21:14
7/11/19
By Merlin Tuttle
Ariel Miller documenting installation of her school’s new bat houses.Skybridge Academy is doing something new! While many school administrators might panic at… Read More
2019-07-01 18:06
7/1/19
By Merlin Tuttle
The American version of BATS: An Illustrated Guide to All Species, published by the Smithsonian Institution, sold its first print run of over 5,000 copies in just thr… Read More
2019-06-27 22:26
By Merlin Tuttle
6/27/19
A reminder that our members DO make a difference! Leading news media outlets are changing tack, publishing more positive, and fewer negative, stories about bats as a… Read More
2019-06-25 17:26
Merlin Tuttle’s Response
6/25/19
For at least the second time this year, The New York Times has published facts involving bats and disease in a misleading manner. At a time when bats… Read More
2019-05-22 18:28
5/22/19By Merlin Tuttle
Merlin explains “chimney-effect” air flow and its key importance in providing cave-dwelling bats with cold roosts for hibernation and warm ones for rea… Read More
2019-05-09 17:40
4/12/19By Merlin Tuttle
This year’s member night
bat cruise was, as usual, a fun event and included MTBC members from as far
away as the United Kingdom. Due to unusually frequent sp… Read More
2019-04-25 22:20
We want to thank each of you who contacted Mayor Bob Manning in response to our Bat Flash in March on behalf of an urgent threat to Australia’s now critically endangered spectacled fly… Read More
2019-04-24 18:37
By Renee Anna Cornue4/22/19
As MTBC’s Photo Collection Administrator, much of my responsibility lies behind a computer screen. I’d seen thousands (about 120,000 if we’r… Read More
2019-03-21 22:20
The Bat Association at Texas State University (BATS) in San Marcos is only a few months old, but already boasts more than 150 members. Its mission is to raise awareness and concern for these… Read More
2019-03-16 00:20
By Teresa Nichta
3/15/19
Atlas Obscura features travel, exploration and hosts a collaborative guide to worldwide locations of special interest. Bats seem a perfect fit with a publicatio… Read More
2019-03-08 23:35
Cairns Mayor, Bob Manning, wants to force flying fox survivors to leave his city. This is planned for the near future, making it an urgent issue. Recent heat stress and s… Read More
2019-02-21 21:48
By Merlin Tuttle
2/21/19
Just as we enter a period of exceptional need for reliable science to protect and restore a healthy planet, too many traditionally prestigious science journals and i… Read More
2019-02-15 23:15
By Merlin Tuttle
2/15/19
A bat house fully occupied by little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) in western New York. This is one of seven that Lew and Dorothy Barnes mounted on their barn. Com… Read More
2019-01-15 22:15
Merlin Tuttle
1/22/19
Today’s issue of TheScientist contains another outstanding example of how MTBC is making a unique, but critical difference for bats. This article was originally s… Read More
2019-01-08 17:15
Merlin Tuttle’s Response
1/8/19
Lena Sun’s article, “On a Bat’s Wing and a Prayer,” in the December 13, 2018 edition of The Washington Post, though well intende… Read More
2018-12-19 20:29
By Merlin Tuttle
12/19/18
Steven Bedard’s article, “The Reservoir,” in the December 12 issue of bioGraphic contains many important points, and the accompanying photography… Read More
2018-12-06 18:09
Young Conservationist Makes a Difference
12/6/18
Anyll Markevich is a young man with a mission. He writes to Merlin, “I became interested in bats thanks to your book, The Secret Lives… Read More
2018-11-21 15:55
The durian is considered the king of fruits throughout Southeast Asia, but it can’t be produced, even in orchards, without bats to pollinate its night-blooming flowers. This important… Read More
2018-11-18 00:05
Last week, Merlin returned to his favorite institution of science, the Milwaukee Public Museum, where he spent his first 11 years as a young scientist (1974-86). He served as Curator of Mam… Read More
2018-11-12 20:51
This was Merlin’s 48th and Teresa Nichta’s 1st NASBR.The 48th Annual North American Society for Bat Research conference was held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 24-27. Hurrica… Read More
2018-11-12 00:09
This was Merlin’s 48th and Teresa Nichta’s 1st NASBR.The 48th Annual Symposium on Bat Research was held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 24-27. Hurricane Willa threatened but f… Read More
2018-11-08 23:24
The keynote speaker for the 72nd Cape May Fall Festival was not a birder this year, but batman Merlin! His talk was on the evening of October 20, 2018 in the Grand Hotel with the theme The I… Read More
2018-10-26 01:26
PechaKucha [ or ペチャクチャ translated as “chit-chat”] is a series of 6-minute talks from presenters in the creative industry inc… Read More
2018-09-21 11:07
9/20/18
Harrison (standing) and Christopher showing off their new BatBnB houses.For the past 18 months Merlin has been assisting Harrison Broadhurst and Christopher Rannefors in creating a l… Read More
2018-09-19 22:58
9/19/18
By Merlin Tuttle
John Chenger and Julie Zeyzus interviewing Merlin for training video on bat cave management.In early August, we accepted a partnership invitation to develop a series… Read More
2018-09-18 18:33
9/10/18
By Merlin Tuttle
Merlin inspects Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) moments after removing them from their bridge crevice roost for counting.For many years we’v… Read More
2018-09-15 00:53
Every year around this time there is a spike in needlessly sensational rabies stories featuring exaggerations of truth. We always encourage others to respond politely to editors, autho… Read More
2018-09-13 15:21
Merlin Tuttle
9/12/18
Building bat roosts into highway bridges in farmlands can benefit farmers at little or no cost to taxpayers. Mark Bloschock, a supervising bridge design engineer at the… Read More
2018-09-10 20:53
At Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation we’re overjoyed to finally launch our membership campaign. Members at the Leadership level or above were given priority invitations to vi… Read More
2018-08-29 14:45
8/28/18
By Merlin Tuttle
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has set world records when it comes to helping bats, and that special help is paying big dividends for Texans and for… Read More
2018-08-10 20:20
Wildlife Disease AssociationSt. Augustine, Florida8/10/18
By Merlin Tuttle
The Wildlife Disease Association hosted a panel discussion on vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus), their impact… Read More
2018-08-10 19:56
8/9/18
By Merlin Tuttle
For decades, bat biologists have debated the extent to which bats prey on, and potentially reduce mosquito populations. However, recent research suggests bats may be… Read More
2018-08-03 19:07
By Merlin Tuttle
8/3/18
The July 11, 2018 edition of Smithsonian.com contains another highly misleading story on virus hunters protecting us from pandemics. The story by Katherine J. Wu is… Read More
2018-06-22 17:43
Nature Nights at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is a free family-fun event held each summer. Merlin Tuttle and Lucas Miller were the main entertainment for Nature Nights: BATS! on J… Read More
2018-06-15 20:07
By Merlin Tuttle
6/15/18
Leading epidemiologists are finally acknowledging that the recently huge expenditures for virus hunting (mostly focused on bats) have little practical value in disea… Read More
2018-06-13 17:53
By Merlin Tuttle
6/6/18
While conducting her Ph.D. thesis research, Bea Maas and her team (Maas et al. 2013) collected data that would surprise even her. When insect-eating bats and birds we… Read More
2018-06-01 23:19
By Merlin Tuttle5/31/18
We greatly appreciate Mongabay for its handling of the Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India. Its story, “Nipah infection in Kerala: Don’t blame the bats… Read More
2018-05-15 23:37
By Merlin Tuttle
5/15/18
I share Benoit Nyemba and Fiston Mahamba’s concern regarding a potential resurgence of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as Reuters News reported on… Read More
2018-04-11 22:10
During both weeks of our workshops, we encountered periodic rain showers, keeping the normally hot, dry-season temperatures far more comfortable than anticipated. The downside was that we ha… Read More
2018-04-04 17:35
During our two-week stay in Panama’s Cocobolo Nature Reserve, we recorded more than 600 bats of 53 species, more than half the total number known for the entire country. Additional spe… Read More
2018-03-23 22:31
The new group arrived successfully and with bells on for Week 2.
We have three bats in training. Merlin trained a hairy big-eared bat (Micronycteris hirsuta) for photography. Within 15 minut… Read More
2018-03-23 11:40
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