Funniest Wildlife Photos: 15 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Winners

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Nov 22, 2023, 07:00pm EST Press play to listen to this article! Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Monday Blahs, Highly Commended. This Great Gray Owl spent most of the afternoon posing majestically . .

. [+] and looking, well, wise. Location: Grand Teton National Park, USA Photo: John Blumenkamp, U.

S. – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, “the funniest and most popular photography competition in the world,” according to the award organizers, “has reached its conclusion and is proud to announce the overall and category winners” for this year. Chosen from 5,300 entries from 85 countries, the image below by photographer Jason Moore of a female Western Grey Kangaroo practicing its air guitar was voted the funniest photo of the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Awards.

MORE FROM FORBES Wild Animals In Beautiful Photos: 25 Winners Of Nature Photographer Of The Year Contest By Cecilia Rodriguez The overall winning image, entitled ‘Air Guitar Roo’, shows the little roo intent on practicing her musical technique in a field abundant with wildflowers in the outer suburbs of Perth, Australia. “Not many people know that kangaroo are normally fairly docile and even a bit boring most of the time, if I’m honest,” Moore explained. “However, when I saw this roo striking the air guitar pose, it immediately brought a smile to my face and I knew that I had captured something special.

” MORE FOR YOU Forbes Asia Hosts Best Under A Billion Forum And Awards Dinner In Manila Travis And Jason Kelce Score Their First Billboard Chart Hit All The Ways Taylor Swift Made History At The 2023 Billboard Music Awards The shot also won the Creatures of the Land category. Moore wins a safari in the Masai Mara, Kenya, with AlexWalker’s Serian and a handmade trophy from the Wonder Workshop in Tanzania . MORE FROM FORBES Amazing Wild Animals In Photos: 19 Winners Of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year By Cecilia Rodriguez The Comedy Wildlife popular competition , which also organizes the Comedy Pet Photography Awards, was founded in 2015 by Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, both professional photographers and passionate conservationists intent on creating “a refreshing, fun and free-to-enter photography competition unlike any other, showcasing seriously funny images of the earth’s most amazing wildlife.

” Celebrating the hilarity of our natural world and highlighting what we need to do to protect it, the contest is open to novices, amateur and professional photographers. This year, the award is championing the work of the Whitley Fund for Nature , a British charity that supports conservation leaders working in their home countries across the global south. For more than 30 years, the fund has channelled £20 million to more than 200 conservationists in 80 countries.

The announcement includes the winners and highly commended images in six categories. Air Guitar Roo, Overall winner and Creatures of the Land winner. Location: Perth, Australia Photo: Jason Moore, Australia – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 The winning image “encapsulates a proper ‘happy vibe and feel-good factor’ – the very essence of what Comedy Wildlife is all about,” the judges said.

Creatures of the air Unexpected plunge, Winner, Creatures of the Air category. Location: Zimanga Private Game Reserve, . .

. [+] South Africa Photo: Vittorio Ricci, Italy – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 Vittorio Ricci won the Creatures of the Air Award for ‘Unexpected Plunge’. her photo of a striated heron ironically falling out of the sky and into the water.

An unusual and almost miserable end of a perfect moment, previously prepared, for a successful fishing plunge. Don’t look down, Highly Commended, Creatures of the Air category. Location: Farne Islands, .

. . [+] Northumberland U.

K. Photo: Brian Matthews, UK – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 A puffin does an inverted snoopy impression while watching jelly fish. Snowball! Highly Commended.

Location: Spitzberg Photo: Jacques Poulard, France – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 This is a white grouse – not a snowball – in a very cold winter. That wasn’t here yesterday!, Highly Commended. Location: Buckeye, Arizona, USA Wendy Kaveney, U.

S. – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 A white-winged dove appears to fly head-on into a cholla cactus skeleton. One for the family album, Highly Commended.

Location: Yorkshire, U. K. Photo: Zoe Ashdown, U.

K – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 As one had just returned to the nest, the Northern Gannets greeted each other with normal beak rubbing. Then, they stopped and looked over and at that moment this image was captured. They seem very proud of their progeny.

Dispute, Winner, Junior category and People’s choice Award. Location: Bialowieza Forest, Poland Photo: Jacek Stankiewicz, Poland – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 With this image of two greenfinches called ‘Dispute’, young photographer Jacek Stankiewicz won not only the JuniorAward but also the Affinity Photo People’s Choice Award – the first time that the award has been won by a junior entry. “I caught this scene while watching birds in the Bialowieza Forest.

The young greenfinch was still fed by parents. However, from time to time the birds looked like they were having an argument. Either the young naughty kid is arguing with a parent or one kid is reporting to the parent that its brother did something wrong, like: “Look, he broke a window!” Creatures of the land Otter Ballerina, Winner, Underwater category.

Location: Singapore Photo: Otter Kwek Singapore – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 These image a charming Ballerina Otter taken in Singapore topped the Underwater category. “Excuse me sir but I think you’re a little too young to be smoking,” Highly Commended. Location: .

. . [+] Virginia, USA Dakota Vaccaro, U.

S. – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 While the photographer was working deep in the Virginian woods, a family of grey foxes took up residence under the deck of the abandoned cottage next door. “One day while practicing their hunting skills on bits of moss and branches, one of the kits lunged at a small chunk of wood and started rolling around with his prize,” Vaccaro recalled.

“Tired after his hunt, the kit lounged on his belly — still holding the wood, which gave the strong resemblance of a cigar. ” Boing!, Highly Commended. Location: Westerfolds Park, Melbourne, Australia Lara Mathews, Australia – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 The image was taken at Westerfolds Park, a beautiful and surprisingly wild pocket of land in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, famous for its kangaroo population.

The mom was enjoying some morning sunshine when this joey decided to get silly and try his hand at boxing. The rainforest dandy, Highly Commended. Location: Bali (Indonesia) Photo: Delphine Casimir, Belgium – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 This picture was taken in the monkey forest in Ubud, Bali, a place where monkeys are king.

Sometimes they give a show; sometimes they climb on visitorrs to look for fleas or steal a piece of biscuit. This one poses like a dandy for the photo. I finally learned to fly.

. . or not!? Winner, Portfolio category.

Location: Austria Photo: Tímea Ambrus, Hungary – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 These two photos are part of a series that won the Portfolio category. The ground squirrel jumped as if he could fly. I finally learned to fly.

. . or not?! Winner Portfolio category.

Location: Austria Photo: Tímea Ambrus, Hungary – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 Unfortunately, he lacks wings. To his surprise he fell back to the ground. The Happy Turtle, Highly Commended.

Location: Jezreel Valley, Israel Photo: Tzahi Finkelstein, Israel – Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 The swamp turtle is surprised and smiles when a dragonfly lands on its nose. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn . Check out some of my other work here .

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