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 BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .