Rare bats found in 30ft triceratops
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.