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.
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
