Linda Poots

Linda Poots (March 25, 1929 – July 10, 2015) was an Estonian zoologist and journalist known for her work with bats. She was the longtime editor of the Estonian nature magazine Eesti Loodus.

Biography Linda Poots was born in 1929 in Tartu, Estonia.

After high school, she attended the University of Tartu, where she began studying bats.

From 1948 onward, Poots made pioneering scientific observations of bats hibernating in Estonian caves. She wrote numerous articles on zoology and travel for this and other publications, and worked as an editor and translator of books on nature.

After retiring from Eesti Loodus, Poots worked in the Tartu University Library from 1984 to 1999, helping classify zoological and medical literature. The couple's jointly written travelogue Tuhat tutvust tundrast kõrbeni was published in 1970.