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 pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
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BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
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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 .
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Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
15-foot-long great white sharks on the hunt, in False Bay, South Africa - SHOCK and awe pictures of 15-foot-long great whites on the hunt will leave you stunned .
Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .