A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .