Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Top Photos

One outstanding and original venue that brilliantly mixes comedy with wildlife protection in the most pleasing manner is the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. This annual competition brings together photographers from all around the world who capture those precisely timed, extremely funny events in the animal world. Although the pictures never fail to make people laugh out loud, their competition goes beyond just entertainment to spread awareness of wildlife protection using the universal language of humour. Viewers all over will find animals relevant and appealing even if they, like humans, can be caught in embarrassing, ridiculous, or even plain ludicrous circumstances. This novel approach to conservation shows that occasionally the greatest way to safeguard our species is to have people fall in love with them via laughter.

1. 'Ah, Monday Again'

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Mondays are passionately hated by humans, and it seems this attitude permeates the animal world as well. Anyone who has ever had the dreaded first day of the workweek will find great humour in this amazing picture of a brown bear. This amazing creature started displaying an extremely beautiful spectrum of emotions that exactly reflected our Monday morning faces while he was going about his regular salmon-catching ritual. The photographer caught the precise moment when the bear's look expressed international "not this again." You would assume he simply recalled he had a den-cleaning schedule to keep or a salmon-catching quota to complete. His eyelids droop and his mouth hangs slightly open. Everyone, regardless of species, we suppose has that unique Monday morning sensation that drives us to want to curl back into our beds, or in this case, back into the den.