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 .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .