8 Funny Wild Animal Videos From The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

You Are What you Eat, Lindsay, ON, Canada

Colleen Piggott – Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By human normal, after all, animals could be unintentionally and surprisingly clumsy, delightfully awkward or laughingly silly. All it takes is a photographer or videographer on the proper place on the proper time to seize humorous wild animal movies or images of these unforgettable moments in nature.

Drawing from that countless supply of comedian inspiration, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards celebrates the world’s funniest wildlife images and movies every year whereas additionally selling consciousness about wildlife conservation and environmental safety.

More than only a supply of laughter, the competitors delivers an necessary message about defending the pure world: “The humor of these videos and photographs is both entertaining and a means to engage people with the threats facing these same animals,”

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The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is free to enter and open to each skilled and beginner photographers and videographers utilizing any digital camera model.

“Our world is extraordinarily beautiful and interconnected, yet the human race is doing its best to over-exploit and damage it,” explains Comedy Wildlife co-founder Paul Joynson-Hicks. “Issues of wildlife conservation and sustainability are gaining momentum globally, yet the messages and images tend to be negative and depressing.”

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Sponsored by Nikon, the competitors has unveiled a collection of its Video Category, that includes a number of the funniest wildlife movies captured across the globe.

Participants could submit as much as two video clips, every not than 15 seconds. The Video Category winner receives a Nikon digital camera and pictures package.

The deadline for entries to the 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is June 30.

You Are What You Eat, by Colleen Piggot, filmed in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

“Chico is a wild chipmunk that I have befriended,” Colleen Piggot explains. “Chico visits my backyard daily for treats. I set up mini-photo-shoots in my backyard for Chico and in return Chico gets treats.

“Chico is a part-time wild chipmunk mannequin that works for peanuts. In this video, Chico is attempting her greatest to get a shelled peanut in her mouth to take again to her burrow.

Surfing Heron by Tatjana Epp, Kruger National Park, South Africa

“At first we spotted the heron and didn’t notice that it was actually standing on the back of a hippo – a perfect shelter for him, because there were so many crocodiles around,” Tatjana Epp says. “Actually, a really smart move. When the hippo started moving , the heron looked a bit irritated. He almost lost his balance.

“But the way he got his balance back fast and how he really seemed to enjoy the ride was a once in a lifetime scene to witness.

“The video ends with the hippo turning its head around. It wanted to get rid of the heron. But it stayed there and the hippo gave up in the end. When we left the place, the heron was still relaxing on the back.”

Too Cold by Lily Bernau, Antartica

An Adelie penguin in Antarctica avoiding a swim along with his mates within the chilly winter water.

Hugging a Best Friend by Rahul Lakhmani, New Delhi

An superb second when one kingfisher simply hurried and banged one other one, wanting like associates giving and getting a too-enthusiastic hug.

The scene took a second and its due to sluggish movement that Rahul Lakhmani was in a position to seize the second, which might be unimaginable to see with a unadorned eye.

Gorilla Baby Falling Over by Andy Rouse, Rowanda

“I was on my sixtieth Mountain Gorilla trek when we found this lovely mother and baby,” says Andy Rouse. “At one point the baby fell over back near the mother’s arms. Clearly she had seen it happen before as she ignored it all.”

Catting Around by Rob Ankner, Massai Mara, Kenia

The encounter of those lions, most likely siblings, showcases the deep social buildings that exist inside lion prides.

Fox With The Zoomies by Kevin Lohman, San Jose, California

A Red Fox on a chilly morning couldn’t get sufficient enjoyable rolling round on frosty grass.

“I had been watching the fox walking slowly across the grass when it suddenly got the zoomies like my dog does after its bath,” Kevin Lohman explains. “It started rolling around on the ice-covered grass, then sliding, then shaking it off like nothing happened.”

Red Fox Having Fun by Heather Ferreira Cole, London

“This fox was photographed in our London back garden at Christmas,” says Heather Ferreira. “We couldn’t believe it when the fox seemed to be bouncing for fun. It was magical.”

All humorous wild animals movies from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Nikon Video Category could be considered on-line here.