14 foolish, never-before-seen photos from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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Accidentally working face-first into your mother’s butt is humorous, irrespective of your species.

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards opened for entries this week and to hype up the 2026 competitors, the highest wildlife images competitors for not-so-serious animals has launched outtakes from final 12 months’s contest. And they don’t disappoint. We get a caiman with butterfly equipment, a pleasant damselfly, and two baboons caught in a compromising place.

Julia Butterflies will often land on a caiman's eyes to lap up the minerals found in their salty crocodile tears
“Feeling cute, might delete later”
Julia Butterflies will typically land on a caiman’s eyes to lap up the minerals discovered of their salty crocodile tears. This explicit Spectacled Caiman in Brazil’s Pantanal seemed particularly happy with its new style equipment, and I couldn’t resist taking a photograph of that self-satisfied look.
Credit: Morris Hersko / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Morris Hersko

More than 10,000 entries competed in 2025 with prime honors bestowed on UK-based photographer Mark Meth-Cohn. And the competitors isn’t nearly laughs—it additionally works to spice up conservation points. “The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards is proud to support Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife charity that has been championing compassionate conservation and campaigning to protect wild animals for over 40 years,” an announcement reads.

The contest is free to enter, and photographers can use any kind of digicam model. Entries have to be submitted till June 30, 2026, with a shortlist revealed in October and the winners introduced in December.

Blue-tailed damselfly on a branch
“Hide and Seek”
Every time I attempted to {photograph} this damselfly he would flip behind the blade of grass. When I gave up he would wave ‘goodbye.’
Credit: Mignon-van-den-Wittenboer / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025
the tail of a parrot popping out of one hole of a pole and a head pops out of another hole
“World’s Longest Parrot”
Several parrots in a pole, giving the phantasm of 1 lengthy parrot.
Credit: Elizabeth Sanjuan / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 e sanjuan
two blue-footed boobies
“The Dance Floor”
Pair of blue footed bobbies in courtship.
Credit: Brigitte Alcalay-Marcon / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025
an egret places its foot on a turtle
“Stop, I Was There First!”
Credit: Bruno Zavattin / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 ZAVATTIN BRUNO
a squirrl holding food
“The Happy Squirrel”
This beautiful squirrel appears to be like as completely satisfied as slightly youngster with a cookie.
Credit: Pilar Lopez-Laseras / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025
an elephant seal flaps in the sand
“Flying Elephant Seal”
This {photograph} is extraordinarily particular to me because it was taken in February final 12 months. The elephant seal on this image is sort of well-known within the Western Cape South Africa, his title is Buffel after being first noticed in Buffelsbay in 2014. They come to land for as much as 4 weeks yearly to molt and shed their complete pelt to be able to ensure it’s sturdy and prepared for his or her lengthy journeys. This explicit picture I spent 8 hours ready to take.
Credit: Stefan Botha / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Johan Botha
a baboon stands in front of another baboon
“Explicit monkey business”
The picture is explanatory.
Credit: Timothy Parrant / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025
a bird with a pink flower on its beak
“Pink Beak”
In April, I visited a small village within the Himalayas for bird-watching. During my journey, I got here throughout a stripe-throated yuhina feeding on a flower. As it was sipping nectar, one of many flowers all of the sudden acquired caught on its beak. Within a fraction of a second, the hen rapidly shook it off. I used to be lucky to seize a number of pictures of that fleeting second.
Credit: Arindam Saha / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 ARINDAM SAHA
a heron and a beaver fighting
“Morning Meeting”
Shortly after dawn I used to be ready for a gray heron to fish for his breakfast. All over sudden a nutria appeared to chase the gray heron away – efficiently.
Credit: Andrea Gubitz / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 GUBITZ
four frogs stacked on each other
“Menage à Quatre”
Our youngsters love spring on the native woodland we go to frequently. It’s the time of 12 months we go “toad watching”. On this explicit event the feminine had fairly the next. I couldn’t assist however really feel sorry for her however the on the similar time her expression was so comical. Never had the act of replica seemed so mundane and such a chore!
Credit: John Harris / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025
a burrowing owl bent at the legs into a right angle
“Core Strength”
So, how lengthy are you able to maintain that pose? I all the time like to catch birds taking off from a perch. That first highly effective wing beat after which “take off”! This little Burrowing Owl had a special method in thoughts, and it appeared to work simply superb!
Credit: Scott Kalter / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025
a red kangaroo on the golf course holding a hole marker flag
“Golf Hazard”
There’s little doubt about it, Kangaroos love golf programs. People present security and there’s plenty of contemporary grass and shade to work with. While staying close to Mareeba, Queensland, I’d stand up early to take a look at the Kangaroos. Typically, they’d simply be lazing round however on this morning, I noticed one on a inexperienced at a distance. Suddenly, it reached over and grabbed the flag, showing intent on doing battle with it. Unsure of how you can deal with the dearth of response, the kangaroo finally deserted its combatant and the inexperienced.
Credit: Michael Lambie / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Michael Lambie

 

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