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 group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .