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.
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .