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.
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .