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After a long wait and a fierce but friendly competition, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have announced their finalists. And the photos are so good, they’re bound to make your day brighter.

One of the founders of the Awards, Tom Sullam, told Bored Panda that the competition exists to recognize great photography and pictures of wild animals that make us snort into our cups of tea. The competition also aims to raise awareness about conservation through a humorous, upbeat, and positive association with these animals.

Read on for our full interview with Tom about the competition’s 6th year, scroll down to check out the finalists, upvote your fave photos, and let us know in the comments which picture you’d pick as your winner. Speaking of those, keep an eye out for the winners on October 22! And have a peek at last year’s finalists here and winners here.

More info: ComedyWildlifePhoto.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

“We strongly believe humor and positivity have a major role to play in building awareness, interest, and eventually action towards protecting the animals that live on this planet,” Tom said. “Over the years, the competition has focused more and more on the conservation, working with the Born Free Foundation and promoting conservation efforts around the world.”

He continued: “We, without being too preachy, want to get you all, and ourselves, to behave a tiny bit differently towards the world we live in. The smallest effort achieved towards conservation is better than the biggest effort never started!”

Tom was ecstatic about how well this year's competition was turning out. “We expected this year to be a little bit tricky as a result of COVID restrictions. But quite sensationally and against all better judgment, we received the highest number of entries ever, over 7,000—and the standard across the board has gone up incredibly,” Tom shared.

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“It has been such a positive response and such an upbeat process to be part of when so many things in 2020 have been so miserable/depressing/disappointing!”

Tom said that the images coming in at such a high volume have kept his and his team’s spirits up and he hopes they’ll do the same for all of us.

“Choosing the finalists was basically an impossible task, our initial shortlist was over 400, which is three times more than it has ever been. If ever there was a year when many could have won this was it and we genuinely feel terribly sorry for those that we couldn't get into the final 44 (which should have been 40 but we just couldn't reject the other 4).”

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then, Mr Robin Hood, the Sheriff of Nottingham stole our last coin out of the Poor Box!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then I told Keesha that Monica's boyfriend Brad's friend Joey said to Nicole...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you just smacked your younger sibling and you have to pretend like they're lying when mom comes over

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why, oh why, do you have to ruin every family photo?

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This pretty much sums up me and my sister's relationship right is me and left is my sister

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

^when mum walks in in the middle of a fight: IT WAS HER!^

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, can't you keep still for one minute. It's just one photograph!

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And then Jessica was like "NUH UH!" and I was all "YUH HUH!"-

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sibling trying to look Innocent, when we know he just pulled his sisters ear!

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noooo ossifer, we not driven... diving.... riding.... huh? what was.... huh? I'm thine

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another one that is me and one of my best friends. (My best friends would be the one on the ground)

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My mom said I couldn’t come out without him, so guys, this is my bearby brother

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oh please Cameraperson - do take this screaming child with you <3

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Hahaha, you should have seen him, I mean, he was SO slow putting on his shoes and...hhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marvin, will you stop fooling around?! This is for senior pictures.

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My cats paw pads look like little bears, same as the dog, I’m disappointed in the revelation that bears paws don’t😞

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Man, I knew I shouldn't have mixed those Kellogg's' Frosted Flakes with the generic store brand ones!"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kinda has the "World's most interesting primate" shtick going on.

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