Three taxidermied penguins preside over Room 426 in Allwine Hall, standing atop a row of metal cabinets in the back corner.
Leprosy might be commonly known as a biblical disease, but a study just found that red squirrels transmitted the disease to humans in the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom. And the fur trade ...
leprae strains between humans and red squirrels during the Medieval Period.” As Winchester was well known for its leprosy hospitals and connections to the fur trade, the researchers speculate ...
In medieval England, red squirrels were popular pets and their fur was widely used to trim and line clothes Humans may have caught leprosy from squirrels in medieval times, researchers say.
When parted, the white hairs of the belly show gray bases, the fur on the upper parts of the body has a reddish ... and pilfers from the caches of the red squirrel. Both species of flying squirrel ...