This episode is about the only mammal that can fly, one that's reviled, but actually pretty darned gentle, unlike in the vampire stories that sprung up around it. But it's also about the dogged man who's been working on saving them for the last 65 years.

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Merlin Tuttle Credits

Nocturne is produced by Vanessa Lowe

Music

Nocturne theme music by Kent Sparling

Find out more about Merlin Tuttle and Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation. I highly recommend his memoir,

The Secret Lives of Bats, My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals.

Episode art by Magdalena Metrycka

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