The lonely red

This lovely little red is to be found in one of our many excellent natural history dioramas at the Museum. Now whereas most of them contain groups of animals, this little chap sits all alone with only a couple of toadstools and pine cones for company; and he’s old, seriously old going by those arthritic little claws. However, just across the way in the main diorama there are friends aplenty [a fox, three badgers and a stoat]; and we all know what happens in a museum at night don’t we…