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.
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
