I just read about a species that was discovered in the ’70s. I’m thinking it might be the species of mouse-bat we just finished battling in the house:
The Musendrophilus
In 1975 the famous naturalist David Attenborough reported on BBC Radio 3 about a group of islands in the Pacific known as the Sheba Islands. He played sound recordings of the island’s fauna, including a recording of an alleged night-singing tree mouse called the Musendrophilus. He also described a species whose webbed feet were prized by inhabitants of the island as reeds for musical instruments.
Wow. I guess we should have kept the little guys and given them some tree branches to hang out in.
