This video reveals the key role of taming bats as a basis for Dr. Tuttle’s amazing success in getting bats to perform naturally in front of his camera and high speed flashes. Many of the scenes in the award-winning documentary “The Secret World of Bats”, which originally aired on CBS Television in 1992, would not have been possible without this skill that Merlin has with bats.

In his more than 55 years of working with bats, he has never been attacked or bitten unprovoked by a bat. He has found them typically to rank among our planet’s most gentle and intelligent mammals. To see more photos and learn more about Merlin’s continuing work, visit www.merlintuttle.com