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.
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .