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.
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
Pic By HotSpot Media - GAME, SET-TEE AND MATCH: COUPLE INSTALL TENNIS COURT IN LOUNGE- In Pic - Ben Walters’ message to West Midlands Police via social media .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .
CRAZY BEARDS come into their GROWN when they've been twisted and waxed into shape .
A mother-of-three who weighed almost 16st has revealed how she lost 7 .
WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .
A Zumba-mad grandma has lost almost 14st after becoming addicted to the popular dance craze .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .