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- Merlin Devere Tuttle (born August 26, 1941) is an American ecologist, conservationist, writer and wildlife photographer who has specialized in bat ecology, behavior, and conservation. He is credited with protecting the Austin Congress Avenue Bridge bat colony from extermination. Tuttle is currently active as founder and executive director of Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation (MTBC) in Austin, Texas. He also founded the conservation organizations Bat Conservation International, from which he retired in 2009, and helped establish the National Park of American Samoa. Tuttle has also published research on gray bat population ecology migration, and the frog-eating bats Trachops cirrhosus. Tuttle's photography of bats has been featured in numerous National Geographic Society publications, including 100 Best Pictures and 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery. In 2002, the United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp series featuring Tuttle's photographs. In 2019, Tuttle served as science editor and photographer for the Smithsonian Books publication BATS: an illustrated guide to all species. He has received accolades for his research and conservation work, including the Gerritt S. Miller Jr. Award, and has been honored by the Texas State House of Representatives. In 2015, Tuttle published his memoir, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures With the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals. (en)
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- Merlin feeding a mealworm to a little big-eared bat in Trinidad, 2016 (en)
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- Bat ecology and photography, conservationism (en)
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- Merlin Devere Tuttle (en)
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- Former Curator of Mammals, Milwaukee Public Museum; (en)
- Advisory Board Member, Disney's Animal Kingdom; (en)
- Co-Director, Smithsonian Venezuelan Project (en)
- Founder & Former Director, Bat Conservation International; (en)
- Founder & Executive Director, Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation; (en)
- Research Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin; (en)
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- "Merlin Tuttle shares bats with David Letterman", YouTube video (en)
- "The importance of bats", YouTube video (en)
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- Merlin Devere Tuttle (born August 26, 1941) is an American ecologist, conservationist, writer and wildlife photographer who has specialized in bat ecology, behavior, and conservation. He is credited with protecting the Austin Congress Avenue Bridge bat colony from extermination. Tuttle is currently active as founder and executive director of Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation (MTBC) in Austin, Texas. In 2015, Tuttle published his memoir, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures With the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals. (en)
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