Talking Bats with Merlin Tuttle | The Beet
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🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Dr. Merlin Tuttle is widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation; he is an ecologist, wildlife photographer, and conservationist who has studied bats and championed their preservation for over 60 years; widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation. He's the founder of Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, home to his legacy and devoted to research, education and the conservation of bats, where he is currently and solely active. Through MTBC he provides the world's finest bat photo gallery, the most up-to-date responses to exaggerated disease speculation, and it is the only place to access his more than 60 years of unique experience or support his continuing efforts.
Joined by Teresa Nichta ("nikta"), Outreach and Collection Manager at Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation. Teresa manages Merlin’s extensive photographic collection as well as social media, video production, field planning, development, correspondence and all things in between.
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| 0:15.8 | Hello everyone welcome back to the show today and this week it is Bat Week here on the epic gardening podcast we have Dr. Merlin Tuttle on the |
| 0:19.6 | show widely recognized as the father of modern bat conservation and he's an |
| 0:25.0 | ecologist a wildlife photographer and a conservationist who studied bats and |
| 0:28.4 | champion their preservation for over 60 years and is the founder of |
| 0:32.1 | Merlin Tuttle's bat conservation. |
| 0:34.0 | And he's joined by Theresa Nicta, who is the outreach and collection manager |
| 0:38.0 | at Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation. |
| 0:40.0 | So thank you both so much for coming on the show. I'm really excited to talk about bats with you both. |
| 0:45.0 | Thanks, Kevin. |
| 0:47.0 | Happy to see you. |
| 0:48.0 | So, you know, from the Gardner's perspective, I'll confess here in San Diego at least, I think I maybe have seen a bat once or twice. |
| 0:56.6 | I don't know if my eyes were deceiving me or not. |
| 0:59.1 | And as we go on through the week, I'll share that I do have a bat house on the property, though I'm almost positive I haven't set it up correctly. |
| 1:07.0 | But maybe we could start with Merlin just your background. |
| 1:10.5 | I mean, you've been doing this for such a long time. I'm curious how it all started for you. |
| 1:14.7 | Well I've been studying bats for almost 65 years. I've photographed or studied them in 45 countries, spent hundreds of hours in caves surrounded |
| 1:29.1 | by thousands, sometimes even millions of bats. |
| 1:38.7 | If bats were a threat to people, I would certainly know about it by now. I've never been attacked. |
| 1:40.1 | I've never contracted disease from a bat. |
| 1:43.0 | All people have to do to live safely and very productively with bats is to just leave |
| 1:49.9 | them alone and let them do their thing and not try to handle them but benefit from their services. |
| 1:58.1 | Where do you think the mythology I suppose of bats being harmful is it is it all from you know |
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