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Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered

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The male greater mouse-eared bat hibernated alone in a disused railway tunnel in Sussex .

He was the only known individual of his kind in the country after he was discovered in 2002 .

The species was declared extinct in 1992 , it was the first land mammal to disappear from Britain since the wolf about 250 years earlier .

Now a female greaterMouseMouse-earedbat of breeding age has been discovered hibernating in South Downs national park.

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