“He sleeps during the day and does his work in the dead of night surrounded by bats. He is The Batman.
David Yates doesn’t live a double life as a playboy billionaire, and he isn’t the hero Gotham needs. But his work is important, as it helps humans better understand a bat population that is fast dwindling in the Northeast.
Yates is a wildlife research biologist and the mammal program director at Biodiversity Research Institute of Gorham, Maine. In recent years, he has studied bats in the Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge, trying to determine which species live on the refuge and where they are roosting.”
