Comedy Wildlife Photo finalists

The shortlisted images for the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo awards are here: from grinning triggerfish to a waving raccoon. 

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Above: A raccoon on a Florida beach being fed shrimps (Photograph: Miroslav Srb/Comedywildlifephoto.com) Whittled down from thousands of entries submitted by professional and amateur photographers from around the world, we’re presented with a wonderful mix of hilarious wildlife. The winners will be announced on 8 December.

A couple of triggerfish looking into the camera in Faial, Azores

Two gentoo penguins hanging out on the beach on the Falkland Islands

An eastern screech owlet tries to look out of the nest it shares with its mum, in a park in Florida, US

A three-month-old lion cub tries to descend a tree in Serengeti, Tanzania

This salmon decided to slap the bear in the face rather than be lunch, in Alaska, US

A hippo yawns next to a heron standing on the back of another hippo in Kruger national park, South Africa

A proboscis monkey in a tree next to the Kinabatangan River, in Sukau, Borneo

A zebra does a great impression of the 80s children’s game Buckaroo in Amboseli, Kenya

A brown bear in Martinselkonen, Finland

A duckling walks across a turtle-covered log at the Juanita wetlands, Washington, US

Lappet-faced vultures displaying on the ground, in Mpumalanga, South Africa

An Indian sarus crane drives an antelope away from its nest to protect its egg at the Keoladeo national park, India

Wallabies play-fighting on the beach in Cape Hillsborough, Queensland, Australia

King penguins at Volunteer Point, East Falkland

A brown bear in Martinselkonen, Finland

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