Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020 finalists named: Funniest animal photos of the year

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  • 2020'S WINNER: 'Terry the Turtle flipping the bird'. Photo: Mark Fitzpatrick/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Almost time to get up'. Photo: CHARLIE DAVIDSON/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'No Penguins Under Here'. Photo: Pearl Kasparian/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Smiley'. Photo: Arthur Telle Thiemann/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Covid Hair!' Photo: Gail Bisson/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Boredom'. Photo: Marcus Westberg/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'I had to stay late at work'. Photo: Luis Burgueno/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'O sole mio'. Photo: Kranitz Roland/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Crashing into the picture'. Photo: Brigitte Alcalay-Marcon/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Wait up mommy, look what I got for you!' Photo: Kunal Gupta/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Social distance, please!' Photo: Petr Sochman/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'So hot'. Photo: Wei Ping Peng/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'The race'. Photo: Yevhen Samuchenko/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Hide and Seek'. Photo: Tim Hearn/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'We all have that friend'. Photo: Yarin Klein/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Fun For All Ages'. Photo: Thomas Vijayan/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Abracadabra!'  Photo: Vicki Jauron//Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Sun Salutation Class'. Photo: Sue Hollis/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Faceplant'. Photo: Tim Hearn/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'I Am Champion'. Photo: Ramesh Letchmanan/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'It's A Mocking Bird!' Photo: Sally Lloyd-Jones/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'I've got you this time!' Photo: Olin Rogers/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'How can I fly'. Photo: Nader Alshammari/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Quiet, please...' Photo: Mike Lessel/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Seriously, would you share some?' Photo: Krisztina Scheeff/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Monkey Business'. Photo: Megan Lorenz/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'It's the last day of school holidays'. Photo: Max Teo/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Socially Uninhibited'.  Photo: Martin Grace/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Laughing Hippo'. Photo: Manoj Shah/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Macaque Striking a Pose'.  Photo: Luis Marti/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'I think this tire's gonna be flat'. Photo: Kay Kotzian/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Just Chillin''. Photo: Jill Neff/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Lamentation'. Photo: Jacques Poulard/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Peekaboo.' Photo: Jagdeep Rajput/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'The inside joke'. Photo: Femke van Willigen/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Doggo'. Photo: Esa Ringbom/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Hi Y'all'. Photo: Eric Fisher/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Tern tuning its wings'. Photo: Daniele D'Ermo/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'I could puke'. Photo: Christina Holfelder/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Surprise Smiles'. Photo: Asaf Sereth/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • Tough Negotiations. Photo: Ayala Fishaimer/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Having a Laugh'. Photo: Ken Crossan/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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  • 'Like mother like daughter'. Photo: JAGDEEP RAJPUT/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2020
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Take a look at this year's 44 finalists in the photo gallery above.

"Nature is healing" has become a common phrase during the COVID-19 pandemic, as wildlife returns to long-abandoned locations in the absence of humans.

The reality might not be so simple, but one thing that's certain is nature is always hilarious, as the finalists in this year's Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards demonstrate.

This year's selection includes a very smiley fish, a greedy puffin, a fox in heated negotiations, a bird with COVID hair and a turtle that's giving 2020 the bird.

Created by professional photographers and conservationists Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, the global competition aims to highlight wildlife conversation while also giving people a much-needed laugh.

The winner of the competition will receive a safari trip to the Masaai Mara in Kenya.

A diverse panel of judges, including photographers, travel editors and comedians, will name the overall winner on October 22. There's also a People's Choice Award that the public can vote for online at comedywildlifephoto.com

Several of this year's finalists are from Australia: Mark Fitzpatrick from Mackay in Queensland, who snapped the annoyed turtle off Lady Elliott Island; Wei Ping Peng from Sydney captured the snow monkey enjoying a hot bath in Japan; Sue Hollis from Summerland Point on the NSW coast took the pic of the sea lion performing yoga in the Galapagos Islands. 

Last year's winner, titled 'Grab life by the ....', by Sarah Skinner featured a male lion about to experience something rather painful, courtesy of a cub.

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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019 Sarah Skinner Brackenll United Kingdom Phone: 07795803689 Email: sarahskinner74@gmail.com Title: Grab life by the ..... Description: I had been watching the younger members of the Savuti Marsh pride in Botswana frolic around with play for a while at one of the waterholes. As the heat started to rise one of the two dominant adult males of the pride decided to move from his position to seek shade. As the male stood and started walking off one of the young cubs, who is blind in one eye ran toward the male, leaping up toward him. Rather than leaping onto his back as we expected the cubs focus instead appeared to directed toward be the adult male's nether regions, with claws fully protracted! Who knows if it was intentional or not, or perhaps a slightly misguided aim. Had the cub been successful in his target there would have been a non to pleased male lion and we suspect a scolded lion cub. Fortunately for the cub and the male he narrowly missed his 'crown jewels' and the male walked on, with all body parts unscathed! Camera/Lens Detail: Nikon D500 SLR with Nikon AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/4E FL ED VR lens Settings: F5.6, 1/1250s Image Taken. November 2017 Animal: African Lion Location of shot: Savuti (Chobe National Park) Botswana Supplied PR image for Traveller. Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019. Only to be used in conjunction with story about competition.

"Grab life by the ..." Photo: Sarah Skinner/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019

The awards this year are sharing the following five conservation messages:

SHOP LOCALLY AND RESPONSIBLY

With the recent lockdown, we have all got used to doing things slightly differently, including shopping closer to home, so why not carry on? It helps in all sorts of ways from supporting small, local businesses to shrinking your carbon footprint and is way more fun. And if you can avoid buying un-recyclable products and one-use plastics/packaging, even better.

PUT PLANT BOXES ON YOUR WINDOWSILLS

One of the easiest things to do... put a plant box on your windowsill, grow some flowers, and give the bees somewhere to go. We've all heard of the importance of bees, and this little nod towards their daily requirements is already a huge step in the right direction. Imagine if every windowsill had a flower box! It would be an absolute miracle, so let's start that process.

ONLY FLY LONG HAUL IF YOU REALLY HAVE TO

Something else lockdown has taught us is how amazing the internet is at keeping us in touch with each other. We're all Zoom experts now. Let's embrace this new whizz technology and only take those flights if there is really no other way.

BECOME A "WILD INFLUENCER"

This is a special person who may be not a mega activist, but someone who really cares about the environment and wants to do something to help.

See also: Beastly beach encounters: The ten best Aussie beaches to see wildlife

See also: After the bushfires, struggling koalas get a new home

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