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.
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .