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.
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .