Merlin Tuttle & Jason Robo chat Bats, COVID-19, media fear, snow bats, bat BJs, 100 MPH bats & more!

Thanks to Merlin's assistant Teresa Nichta for putting these links together:
Here are links in real time. I don't have a link for the Kenyan story Merlin discussed.
Ebola
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/exaggerated-disease…
Fear of Bats - why is it so lucrative to scare people about bats, specifically?!
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/fear-of-bats-and-it…
Give Bats a Break
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/publication-defense…
Pesticide Addiction
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/pesticide-addiction…
Bat Values - banana, mangrove, durian, macadamia, agave, pest control, coffee and chocolate (pest control), etc etc etc :)
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/essential-bat-value…
Austin bridge bat colony -
austinbats.org/
Tx dot redid the bridge and unknowingly created a beautiful bat home. But then they started purposefully creating bat habitat in bridges with the guidance of Merlin. Here is a link to all the stuff about Txdot on our website.

www.merlintuttle.org/?s=txdot&submit=Search
Mark Bloschock is the engineer that spearheaded the projects in Texas, and then around the country. If it would be helpful to you, you're welcome to reach out to him, mbloscho@yahoo.com.
Finding, Protecting, and Restoring America’s Historic Bat Caves
www.merlintuttle.org/finding-protecting-restoring-…
Taiwanese ancient bat art and current school with bat houses!
www.merlintuttle.org/?s=taiwan&submit=Search
Camazotz - Mayan bat god
www.ancient-origins.net/history/was-mythical-mesoa…
Cambodia bat guano mining
www.merlintuttle.org/?s=cambodia&submit=Search
Khao Chong Pran Cave story
   • Tuttle Tales Episode 1: KHAO CHONG PRAN  
Value of Guano Deposits
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/value-of-guano-depo…
Vampyrum spectrum in Trinidad
   • Vampyrum spectrum  
The Secret Lives of Bats book, not on Amazon ;)
www.batgoods.com/item/The-Secret-Lives-of-Bats--11…
Winning Friends Not Battles
   • The Power of Winning Friends Not Battles: ...  
Merlin origins
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/advice-young-people…
Merlin's first Smithsonian expeditions at age 24
www.pkmillerwriter.com/
Stellaluna kids book
www.merlintuttle.org/2016/11/06/the-power-of-bat-p…
Bat Flashes - MTBC countering all the negative press with assistance from members
www.merlintuttle.org/category/bat-flash/
Photo gallery - available for self-service download!
merlintuttle.smugmug.com/
Video gallery
www.merlintuttle.org/video-library/
Selecting a Quality Bat House
www.merlintuttle.org/selecting-a-quality-bat-house…
Join as a Member
www.merlintuttle.org/become-a-member/
Truth about diseases, exaggerated disease warnings
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/exaggerated-disease…
WNS facts
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/white-nose-syndrome…
Finding, Protecting, and Restoring America’s Historic Bat Caves
www.merlintuttle.org/finding-protecting-restoring-…
Pesticide Addiction
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/pesticide-addiction…
Virologists
Edward J. Holmes, Andrew Rambout, Kristian Andersen -
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05373-w
Nardus Mollenze & Daniel Streiker PNAS (2020)—"Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts. Examined 415 RNA and DNA viruses & their histories of human infection.
John Wentzle (2020) - Points out that methods used to explore coronavirus outbreaks is way outdated and inappropriate, ultimately biased and misleading. Just because you find a virus in an animal doesn't mean it indicates where it comes from for human transmission.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cla.12425
How I Photograph Bats
www.merlintuttle.org/resources/how-i-photograph-ba…
Ecuador Puya plant pollination, bats ride the thermals at night and live in the valleys during the day
merlintuttle.smugmug.com/search/?n=merlintuttle&sc…
American bat hibernating in sub zero temps - sadly we haven't been to Japan to photograph the ones in the snow
merlintuttle.smugmug.com/Low-Resolution/Hibernatio…

My personal links for Jason Robo:
www.strictlyrevolutionary.com/
www.instagram/strictlyrevolutionary
IG: @StrictlyRevolutionary
www.twitter.com/StrictlyRebel
youtube.com/c/JasonRobo
www.reddit.com/user/strictlyrebel
www.pinterest.com/StrictlyRebel/
vimeo.com/jasonrobo
soundcloud.com/strictlyrevolutionary
strictlyrevolutionary.tumblr.com/
strictlyrevolutionary.imgur.com/