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.
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
