This makes red squirrels the earliest known non-human hosts ... squirrels found at a nearby site that was home to at least one fur shop between the 11 th and 13 th centuries.

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 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 ...