Field Work

Merlin Tuttle climbing 50 feet above floor holding two bags of just recaptured, banded, gray myotis (Myotis grisescens) in 1971 in Fern Cave, Alabama. He banded over 41,000 of these bats at summer caves and tracked their movements, behavior and survivorship for 20 years.

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Merlin Tuttle climbing 50 feet above floor holding two bags of just recaptured, banded, gray myotis (Myotis grisescens) in 1971 in Fern Cave, Alabama. He banded over 41,000 of these bats at summer caves and tracked their movements, behavior and survivorship for 20 years.

1969 Alabama Fern Cave Alabama Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge Merlin Tuttle Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation North America cave field work

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Field Work