To Know Bats Is to Love ThemMerlin Tuttle has spent a lifetime bringing bats out of the shadows and into the light. Merlin Tuttle, the world's most famous bat biologist and booster, has devoted his life to studying, demystifying, and helping conserve bats. He's also photographed them—a statement that doesn't begin to do justice to his work. Tuttle is to bats as Annie Leibovitz is to celebrities. I
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