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.
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .