Linda Poots (March 25, 1929 – July 10, 2015) was an Estonian zoologist and journalist known for her work with bats.

[1][4][5] From 1948 onward, Poots made pioneering scientific observations of bats hibernating in Estonian caves.

[2] At her urging, bat hibernation sites at Piusa and near Tallinn were protected by the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1980s.

[2][3][4][6] She wrote numerous articles on zoology and travel for this and other publications, and worked as an editor and translator of books on nature.

[7] After retiring from Eesti Loodus, Poots worked in the Tartu University Library from 1984 to 1999, helping classify zoological and medical literature.