The shortlisted images for the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo awards are here: from grinning triggerfish to a waving raccoon.
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
Photograph: Arturo Telle/Comedywildlifephoto.com
Two gentoo penguins hanging out on the beach on the Falkland Islands
Photograph: Jennifer Hadley/Comedywildlifephoto.com
An eastern screech owlet tries to look out of the nest it shares with its mum, in a park in Florida, US
Photograph: Mark Schocken/info@comedywildlifephoto.com
A three-month-old lion cub tries to descend a tree in Serengeti, Tanzania
Photograph: Jennifer Hadley/Comedywildlifephoto.com
This salmon decided to slap the bear in the face rather than be lunch, in Alaska, US
Photograph: John D Chaney/Comedywildlifephoto.com
A hippo yawns next to a heron standing on the back of another hippo in Kruger national park, South Africa
Photograph: Jean Jacques Alcalay/Comedywildlifephoto.com
A proboscis monkey in a tree next to the Kinabatangan River, in Sukau, Borneo
Photograph: Andy Evans/Comedywildlifephoto.com
A zebra does a great impression of the 80s children’s game Buckaroo in Amboseli, Kenya
Photograph: Vince Burton/Comedywildlifephoto.com
A brown bear in Martinselkonen, Finland
Photograph: Valtteri Mulkahainen/Comedywildlifephoto.com
A duckling walks across a turtle-covered log at the Juanita wetlands, Washington, US
Photograph: Ryan Sims/Comedywildlifephoto.com
Lappet-faced vultures displaying on the ground, in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Photograph: Saverio Gatto/Comedywildlifephoto.com
An Indian sarus crane drives an antelope away from its nest to protect its egg at the Keoladeo national park, India
Photograph: Jagdeep Rajput/Comedywildlifephoto.com
Wallabies play-fighting on the beach in Cape Hillsborough, Queensland, Australia
Photograph: Michael Eastway/Comedywildlifephoto.com
King penguins at Volunteer Point, East Falkland
Photograph: Martin Grace/Comedywildlifephoto.com
A brown bear in Martinselkonen, Finland
Photograph: Valtteri Mulkahainen/Comedywildlifephoto.com
