For hundreds of years, society’s elites stitched red-squirrel pelts into luxurious floor-length capes and made the animals pets, cradling them in their lap and commissioning gold collars ...

“The medieval red squirrel strain we recovered is more ... squirrels were regularly kept as pets in England in medieval times and squirrel fur was widely used in garments across Europe during ...

The artist is set to design other animal murals in the UK, Ireland and the United States focusing on endangered species such as red squirrels which are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside ...