Snicker out loud at a few of the funniest wildlife pictures of 2025 | story

Nature’s received a way of humour, too

Next time you exit for a hike, take your digicam with you.

If you possibly can seize a photograph of wildlife doing one thing hilarious, you could possibly develop into a giant winner.

Nikon, the digicam firm, holds an annual picture competitors for the funniest wildlife pictures.

Prizes embody a one-week safari keep for the general winner, together with Nikon digicam kits and pictures backpacks for the opposite winners.

Here are a few of the prime pictures from the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards in 2025.

Can you unscramble this picture?

The total winner is a gorilla that appears to be practising dance strikes within the grassy Virunga Mountains in Rwanda. 

It was photographed by Mark Meth Cohn, a photographer from the U.Ok.

“Watching his performance was pure joy, and I’m thrilled to have captured his playful spirit in this image,” he wrote within the picture caption.

The title he gave to this profitable picture is High Five.

See for those who can unscramble the picture beneath based mostly on the picture above, then maintain studying for extra puzzles.

 

The junior class winner (underneath 16)

This picture, titled Baptism of the Unwilling Convert, reveals one frog dunking one other frog into the water, like a baptism.

“It wasn’t until I got back to the house and looked at the pictures that I saw this one and realized how much I liked it,” mentioned Grayson Bell, a 13-year-old from the U.S.

This picture additionally gained the class for reptiles, amphibians and bugs.

(Image credit score: Grayson Bell/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

The ThinkTANK birds award

Warren Price from the U.Ok. gained the fowl class with this picture of two guillemots, titled Headlock.

In the caption, he mentioned that guillemots are fiercely territorial and battles over nesting area occur ceaselessly.

“The nests [are] all crammed in close together, which isn’t a good recipe for being good neighbours,” he mentioned.

(Image credit score: Warren Price/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

The fish and different aquatic species award

This picture of a bluestriped fangblenny titled Smiley gained the underwater class.

It was photographed by U.Ok. photographer Jenny Stock whereas on a scuba dive within the Philippines.

“I loved its cheeky face smiling back at me,” she wrote within the caption.

(Image credit score: Jenny Stock/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Other winners and notable pictures

Here are a couple of extra of the highest pictures from the competitors, together with some pictures that didn’t win, however have been extremely counseled.

Digging for Gold by Maggie Hoffman from the U.S. (Image credit score: Maggie Hoffman/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Bad hair day by Christy Grinton from Canada. (Image credit score: Christy Grinton/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Now which course is my nest by Alison Tuck from the U.Ok. (Image credit score: Alison Tuck/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

The choir by Meline Ellwanger from the U.S. (Image credit score: Meline Ellwanger/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Smile — you are being photographed by Valtteri Mulkahainen from Finland. (Image credit score: Valtteri Mulkahainen/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Landing gear down by Erkko Badermann from Finland. (Image credit score: Erkko Badermann/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

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TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Mark Meth Cohn/Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards