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.
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
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 .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
