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.
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
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A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .