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Photographing the World’s Smallest Mammal

The Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bat

The Lonely Planet travel guide Thailand claims Sai Yok National Park is home to “some extremely rare animals.”

Merlin first came here in 1982 to photograph one of them: the world’s smallest mammal, the Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) aka Kitti’s Hog-nosed Bat. That was before he started his signature portrait gallery of all the bats of the world. He has returned to Sai Yok to complete the collection of all the world’s 19 families of bats.  

The Kitti’s Hog-nosed Cave is protected by a Buddha shrine.  Access to the cave is controlled by the monks. With their permission, we took our camera equipment inside to catch and photograph this tiny bat that weighs a third of a US penny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti’s_hog-nosed_bat.

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Michael Lazari Karapetian has over twenty years of investment management experience. He has a degree in business management, is a certified NBA agent, and gained early experience as a money manager for the Bank of America where he established model portfolios for high-net-worth clients. In 2003 he founded Lazari Capital Management, Inc. and Lazari Asset Management, Inc.  He is President and CIO of both and manages over a half a billion in assets. In his personal time he champions philanthropic causes. He serves on the board of Moravian College and has a strong affinity for wildlife, both funding and volunteering on behalf of endangered species.