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Season’s Greetings!
A Cave nectar bat (Eonycteris spelaea) pollinating a wild banana flower in Thailand, September 2012. Over the past year, we collaborated with German colleague, Ralph Simon, taking more than 20,000...
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Merlin’s Recovery Progress
Side view showing tumor on top Merlin’s recovery news is mixed. For the first two weeks following the initial tumor removal, he seemed to be making a miraculous recovery. Then he started getting...
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NASBR 43rd & 16th International Bat Research Conference, San José, Costa Rica
The end of conference banquet: Merlin and Paula Tuttle with Ann Froschauer of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Merlin has attended every NASBR conference, since the beginning. Corey Kane, a writer with...
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Mamba Mountain
Valerie’s photo of a huge black mamba with head raised, as seen in the bottom foreground Valerie Linden and Sina Weier, graduate students from Germany doing research on the bats in this area shared an...
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Adventures in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Shy elephant, Kruger Nat’l Pk, S. Africa It’s been a few weeks since our adventures in South Africa, particularly our daytrip to Kruger National Park. To tell you the truth, I’m just calming down...
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The Siemers Bat Field Station in Tabachka, Bulgaria
Antonia Hubancheva, Daniela Schmieder, Paula and Merlin Tuttle, and local neighbor Georgi Guder at the Siemers bat research field station in Tabachka, Bulgaria. Our Friday the 13th flight from Paris to...
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Appreciation barbecue at the field station
Every field season, it’s a tradition for the field station to hold a barbecue and invite friends and local bat researchers like Teodora Ivanova (holding her baby) who, together with Bjorn Siemers from...
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Bat song!
Many of you, even among bat researchers, will be amazed at these examples of melifluous bat songs. You can read/listen to the full story on Radiolab.org Tadarida brasiliensis Nyctinomops...
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And the winner is…Batgirl!
Back on March 22nd I blogged about Alexis Valentine’s accolade of Grand Champion, Junior Division in the 2016 Sevier County Science Fair. And she told us she would soon compete at the Regional SASEF...
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2017 Bat Calendar
2017 calendar of Merlin Tuttle’s bat photography is now available! View the photos and get your calendar HERE The post 2017 Bat Calendar appeared first on Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation.
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