The Musendrophilus (April Fool’s Day - 1975)
The naturalist David Attenborough gave a report 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 a night-singing, yodelling tree mouse called the Musendrophilus. He also described a web-footed species whose webs were prized by inhabitants of the island as reeds for musical instruments.
I remember it well. I was completely taken in. I even made notes. Only when I tried to find the Sheba Islands on a map did I realise…
Ha! He is well known for April fool pranks apparently