Meet Texas’s Very Own Bat Man | Atlas Obscura

“There are lots of people in the world who don’t know me at all, except as Bat Man.” Meet Merlin Tuttle, a bat biologist and conservationist. Founder of the non profit organization Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation, Merlin has been studying bats in every major habitat zone around the world for 60 years. To Merlin, bats aren’t just symbols of vampiric lore; they protect entire ecosystems and prevent insects from destroying agricultural crops. In this video, Merlin takes us to a special bat bridge in Texas, to