OBC's
directors and bats have appeared on numerous shows |
| The Bat
Zone Meets Conan O'Brien |
Fox
and Friends News
|
2009-Residents
of the Bat Zone at Cranbrook, along with Bat Zone Director Rob
Mies,
visited The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
on Thursday, October 29.
Rob talked about
the animal most associated with Halloween and personally introduced
Conan and guests to residents of the Bat Zone.
See
part 1 of the show See part 2 of the show |
2009-Director
Rob Mies discusses the white-nose bat syndrome on Fox and Friends News
show.
See a clip of the
show
|
The
Ellen Degeneres Show
|
2007-Director Rob
Mies and a variety of bats from the Bat Zone were featured on the Halloween
segment of The Ellen Degeneres Show.
See
a clip of the show
|
Late
Night With Conan O'Brien
 |
Oct.
2005-Director Rob Mies was featured on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
Rob brought with him a big brown bat, a baby vampire bat, and a gigantic
flying fox.
See
a clip of the show |
National
Geographic |
May 2005-Director Kim Williams and the Bat Zone's vampire bats are featured
on National Geographic's "Bug Attack-Blood Suckers." This show
was about insects that suck blood, however they started the show with a
segment on vampire bats and why they are not as bad as most insects.
|
| Live
with Regis and Kelly |
Oct.
2004-Director Rob Mies shows Regis and Kelly a variety of bats including
a gigantic flying fox (with a 6 foot wingspan). Myths were dispelled
and the benefits of bats were discussed.
|
Martha
Stewart Living
|
Oct. 2002-The Organization
for Bat Conservation's director, Rob Mies, shows Martha Stewart, and
her fans, how to build a bat house. This was the third time the Organization
for Bat Conservation was asked to appear on Martha Stewart Living. Rob
brought a big brown bat, a pallid bat, and a Mexican free-tailed bat.
The big brown and free-tail are common residents of bat houses. The program
was aired October 25th, 2002 and OBC was delighted to educate millions
of viewers about how to build a bat house.
See
a clip of the show |
The
Today Show
|
April and Oct. 2000-Rob
Mies and Kim Williams, appeared on NBC's the Today Show with Jim Fowler
and Katie Curic during their big Halloween show on October 31, 2000,
2001, and 2002. A large portion of the show was filmed outside, along
with hundreds of New York City residents dressed up in Halloween costumes.
Bats were included in two of Jim's segments. Kim brought on an endangered
Golden Bat from the Island of Rodrigues and explained the importance
of OBC's project to inform people about their possible extinction.
Katie said that she thought that some bats were cute and that she understood
the importance of insect-control in the United States. Kim then brought
out a vampire bat and talked about the myths surrounding these bats,
including references to Count Dracula. This was the second time OBC
was on the Today Show with Jim Fowler, we enjoyed the experience immensely!
See
a clip of the show |
Wild
Things |
Oct.
1997-Kim Williams and Rob Mies film for Paramount Pictures "Wild
Things." This show was about OBC's rescue work in Australia with
the spectacled flying foxes. It aired numerous times throughout the
United States and generated much interest in this conservation project.
See
a clip of the show
|
