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.
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .