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.
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .