Hilarious Moments: Comedy Wildlife Pictures Awards 2025

Mulkahainen took this picture of a brown bear within the Martinselkonen space of Finland.

“After I was photographing bears, this one-year-old bear cub noticed it and began smiling at me,” Mulkahainen wrote.

Ellwanger caught three lions yawning on the identical time, calling it “a hilariously fortunate second.”

“The red-throated loon is kind of a poor flyer, and its touchdown is normally very wobbly,” Badermann, who took the picture in Finland, wrote. “It seeks steadiness with its legs stretched backwards after which belly-lands to glide. I prefer to say they use the water as their runway. This time, the chicken got here straight in direction of me and was so regular you may think it had taken flying classes.”

Whereas visiting Hwange Nationwide Park in Zimbabwe, Botev got here throughout a troop of baboons enjoying in a tree.

“Each time they handed by the sitting baboon, it was making an attempt to catch them in a humorous means,” Botev wrote.

Grinton photographed a gray squirrel relocating her infants to a brand new nest in Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park in British Columbia. Because the squirrel left the nest, her moist tail moved on prime of her head, making it appear like a spiky haircut.

“After I noticed her it made me smile, pondering, ‘I do know that second the place you’ve simply washed your hair and the doorbell goes!” Grinton wrote. “I additionally cherished the textures and colours of the bark of the arbutus tree surrounding her and her ‘dangerous hair.’”

Saalwaechter photographed lion cubs pestering their mom in Tanzania’s Serengeti Nationwide Park.

“For over an hour, they adopted their mom round a well-known Serengeti kopje — these iconic rocky outcrops that dot the panorama— alternating between making an attempt to suckle and play,” Saalwaechter wrote. “Every time the mom, already in a foul temper from the sweltering warmth, would give a fast roar of disapproval and escape the circus. However the cubs, like several persistent little ones, would chase her down, nipping at her and yelping for extra consideration.”

Luca photographed a lemur in Madagascar licking its fingers “with the grace of a stage actor and the timing of a comic,” as if it had simply eaten a bag of Fonzies snacks.

“The picture instantly jogged my memory of that previous snack business: ‘In the event you do not lick your fingers, you are solely half having fun with it!’” Luca wrote.

Tuck captured the second when nesting grass blew right into a gannet’s face on the Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, England.

Kirby photographed a Steller’s sea eagle guarding a fish it had caught in Hokkaido, Japan.

“Different birds have been flying above, and as they got here nearer, I captured the look it gave them,” Kirby wrote. “There was no means it was parting with its catch.”

Cohn photographed a child gorilla showing embarrassed by its mom within the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda.

Worth wrote that he photographed these “fiercely territorial” guillemots within the midst of a dispute “on a small rocky cliff ledge the place area was at a premium.”

“I favored the way in which the guillemot was wanting immediately into my lens, its white eye-liner eyes highlighting its predicament!” Worth wrote. “Typically you simply wish to chunk your neighbor’s head off…actually!”

“While on a scuba dive within the Philippines, this little fish stored popping its head out of its dwelling, a gap within the patterned coral,” Inventory wrote of the bluestriped fangblenny featured in her successful picture. “I took a couple of photographs and I cherished its cheeky face smiling again at me. What an expressive-looking face!”

Bell, a 13-year-old photographer, took this picture of male frogs establishing their territory in a pond in Maine.

“I took my digicam and lay on my stomach, watching them and taking pictures,” Bell wrote. “It wasn’t till I received again to the home and seemed on the photos that I noticed this one and realized how a lot I favored it. I confirmed it to my mother and father they usually cherished it too and it turned one in all my favorites. All of us thought it seemed like one frog was making an attempt to baptize the opposite!”

Rustemeier photographed playful foxes on a nature reserve within the Netherlands, documenting the identical den over a number of months.

“The time with them taught me quite a bit about their social habits,” Rustemeier wrote. “I noticed them struggle, hunt, sleep, groom, and naturally play, which is at all times my favourite to look at! You actually need to giggle quite a bit watching foxes play with their quirky personalities.”

Hoffman caught a feminine chimpanzee choosing her nostril in a sequence of pictures taken in Gombe Nationwide Park in Tanzania.

Cohn snapped this successful picture of a gorilla from a household group generally known as the Amahoro household in Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains.

“One younger male was particularly eager to indicate off his acrobatic aptitude: pirouetting, tumbling, and excessive kicking,” Cohn wrote. “Watching his efficiency was pure pleasure, and I am thrilled to have captured his playful spirit on this picture.”