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.
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .