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Well welcome to the show, Merlin. What a great name, by the way. Thank you.

Your parents named you Merlin. Did they make you get into magic at all?

My mother actually named me Merlin Devir,

and her hope was that she would get a kick out

of me being a medical doctor, MD Tuttle MD. but it didn't work out that way.

Well, you're a bat scientist.

How does one specialize in bats?

How did that journey start?

Well, I was always interested in anything in nature.

I start out at two collecting monarch caterpillars and watch them make cocoons and hatch into butterflies and then I went into a

snake phase in which my mother was not happy with that phase at five I was dragging

in sometimes snakes four or five feet long and they'd get loose in the house and

oh no.

We moved into a new neighborhood one time and a welcoming committee came over to welcome my mother to the neighborhood.

And I had a few days before caught a 7 foot 8 inch coach whip snake that I was really proud of, but it got out.

And we couldn't find it in the house. we thought it had gotten out of the house.

The group sitting around welcoming my mother to the neighborhood and all of a sudden

she sees everybody with a look of horror on their faces and they're heading for the door.

And this snake had reared up behind the hat couch and was looking for all the world like a cobra looking around.

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