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.
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
SHOVELLING food into his mouth, this hungry gorilla enjoys a peaceful moment at dinner time .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .