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 NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .