The Daily Telegraph

Rare bats found in 30ft triceratop­s

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Amazed nature lovers have found endangered bats the size of a 10p coin which have set up home in the tummy of a monster dinosaur in Devon.

Staff at Combe Martin Wildlife and Dinosaur theme park near Ilfracombe did a double take when they heard strange rustlings.

They peeped inside the makebeliev­e 30ft tall roaring dinosaur and saw some of Britain’s rarest creatures hunkering down for the winter.

The lesser horseshoe bats, weighing the same as a 10p piece with a nineinch wingspan, had found a hole to flit in and out of their hibernatio­n ‘nest’.

They have made their winter hideaway in the tummy of the 30ft long fibre glass model of a triceratop­s in the grounds of the theme park.

Ruth Testa, manager of the Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project, said they were astonished and delighted to find the bats inside the triceratop­s, one of a range of dinosaurs on display.

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