bats need our help and lucky for us there is a hero named dr merlin tuttle see i told you that's his name right there no jerry he's not holding an invisible baby it's too big to be an invisible baby whatever it is he's massaging it dr tuttle has devoted his life to saving bats and look he's doing it right now going right into the crotch of that tree and trust me that tree is honored to have merlin tuttle climb into its crevice and you would be too you know the origin story of batman where the
little boy pisses paints because he gets stuck in the middle of some bats flying around well that actually happened to merlin when he was a boy not the p part but the part with the bats and you know what he wasn't scared he loved it and that's why one is a pretend and the other one is a real life freaking hero here's the deal these cute little bastards want you to give merlin your money by donating to the merlin tuttle bat conservation and right now for every dollar that you give you would have given a
dollar and that's a promise you know that bridge in austin texas that every single person who's ever been to austin texas tells you about the one with the bats yeah that's merlin tuttle i mean he's not the bridge but i'm saying it's there because of merlin tuttle not the brit it's again not the bridge the bats they were gonna kill those bats but merlin tuttle showed them not to be afraid he's good at that he has a philosophy called winning friends not battles and he's not even a hippie he's serious about it too in american
samoa he made friends with the hunters who were shooting all the fruit bats into extinction the batman would have tried to beat them all up and thrown back-shaped paraphernalia at them but merlin tuttle made friends which is hard to do with someone who's killing the things you love those hunters became his allies and they gave up hunting those bats and they helped him establish a whole national park there but wait sorry but wait there's more check this out the year is 1981. merlin tuttle's mustache is already in full blossom jerry you got another angle on
that stash oh that's good look at him he knows it too anyway merlin's in thailand helping some buddhist monks with their bat poop problem the poop from insect eating bats is like gold if gold were made out of bat poop it even has its own name guano which is cooler than my poop's name theodore guano can be sold as fertilizer which is how the monks made money but each year there was less of it i know what you're thinking if the bats hang upside down how do they poop without a full body skid mark do
they do a little sit up or is it more of a one foot hang i don't know but you know who does dr merlin tuttle anyway merlin discovers a poacher who put up a giant net in front of the bat cave and you know what merlin tuttle did he made friends with him turned out to be someone trying to make a buck for his family merlin wanted to understand the bigger economic picture the poachers wanted these fruit bats which they sold to restaurants but fruit bats are major pollinators of durian that's the fruit with the
tagline tastes great but smells like it's like a billion dollar industry you don't want to screw with that but the nets were also trapping these bats the bats who have the butt from which the poop come not only do these bats produce guano they also eat tons of insects that are a threat to local farmers based on all this merlin convinced the monks to hire a full-time game warden to protect the cave and in just a few years that created an economic benefit for the monks the farmers not so much the poachers but they were
new jobs because the tourists showed up to watch the recovered bats fly out of their caves and beautiful plumes merlin doesn't just help bats he helps people too bats are not only so cute they are ecologically invaluable for pest control fertilization and as pollinators do you like tequila well bats are the natural pollinators of the agave they get their tongues all up in there that's why the next morning it feels like you've been faced by a bat please consider supporting merlin tuttle's bat conservation bat populations are in decline some are being slaughtered by the millions
merlin tuttle is genuinely a hero not just for bats but for people with your help he can help go to merlintuttle.org look at or purchase one of these incredible photographs and become a member of the merlin tuttle bat conservation [Music] generally they're just letting him wander off like that into the woods well somebody should go after him he's he's a national treasure and just spent the whole episode hyping him up and now he's lost in the forest [Music] i'm telling you i'm not kidding another eighth of an inch i wouldn't have gotten through that all
merlin he likes the bats [Music] and then
