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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

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glowworm2
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that sea turtle flippering us off?

Foxxy (The Original)
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was my first thought, wouldn’t blame it after what us humans are doing to their home.

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like this is a sign from "Mother Nature" to stop polluting our oceans and waterways.

Raine Soo
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An angry sea turtle telling us where to go. And, we deserve it.

Bob Belcher
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mother Nature rules! Now he just needs some tats.

Mr. Bean
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

a well deserved middle finger. SAVE THE TURTLES! SAVE THE OCEAN!

Sabrina Fisher
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is truly my spirit animal. lol I work at a zoo and I want this made into a tshirt

BusLady
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks, humans, for polluting my home.

Colin L
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right there with you turtle...

Wibbi
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's right! Considering what we are doing to their habitats...

Demian
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well we are actually being dickheads

Philip Malchek
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's sick of humans destroying the ocean

Ava-cado
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Screw you, you're ruining my oceans!

Phunny Philosopher
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The hand, er, flipper gesture goes PERFECTLY with the facial expression!

TheHolyFatherOfToast
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard an italian voice from the turtle. I dont know why 😂😂😂

MarkandVicki Aked
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is definately one pissed off turlte, she probably just got back into the water after digging a huge hole in the sand to lay what she thought looked like was literily thousands of the smallest clear eggs all joined together that took her what felt like a week to lay and then remembered eating that weird huge tasteless bubbly jellyfish that kept going POP with every mouthfull and took 6 months to s**t it out - Bubble Wrap - no wonder she looks that way and flippin' us all the "bird".

Analyn Lahr
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The sea turtles opinion on how we treat our oceans.

Karen Ambler
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks 2020- this is for you 🖕🏻

Amazon QT
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haaahhaaa -he doesn’t you!

mari C
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

....Finding Nemo gone bad...😋

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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*dead meme* skskskskskskskksks hydro flaskksksksks

Joanne Trese
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess 2020 isn't so great for turtles either...

Ellen Ambrose
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It really looks like he is telling you to flip off.

Valerie Staddon
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perfectly expressed and a left hander to boot!

Eredyn IreMist
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's had enough of our pollution bs...

Josie
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He be like get that camera out my face

Linda HS
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well said turtle, well said

Leslie Ayers
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scene from the upcoming movie "Grumpy Old Turtles". Coming soon!!

Geri Taran
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...AND THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON.

Stormy Ashes
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's trying to Thanos snap us all!

cmmoccio@bellsouth.net
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like this sea turtle is telling us where to go!

Carmen Anderson
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had enough ♥️♥️♥️♥️👍👍👍👍😂😂😂😂

Naomi Cline
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would flip him off too if he destroyed my home the way we are destroying his!

Beverly Ujanen
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So Jack has been swirling in Gitchi Goomee... did this turtle meet him???

Dorothy Schmidt
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He sorta has the expression of our Pres.

Jeanne Davis
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Katy ... I thought you could use a Sunday laugh.

FireStone Beware
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5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

F*ck off im watching watching the show now

Terry Gunn
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

intriguingly and a great view

Shelley Tule
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This might be my spirit animal...

Elaine Mattingly
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5 years ago

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Amanda Ashton
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

get out of my way did not say you could take my photo dude

Elizabeth Gardner
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do not blame him at all I agree we humans deserve it!

Cheryl Woodburn
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hilarious! The face...the “finger”.

Atheana
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is he flipping us off with his flipper??? Lol

Atheana
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Flipping us off with his flipper!

Tia Weinstein
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sea turtle: "This is what I think of 2020 so far..."

Anna Pilatova
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You get it??? They drew me back in...

Peggy McTernen
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

some days I just feel like flippering people off lmao

Ruth Gross
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actions speak louder than words!LOL

Caroline Overill
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 150 years old so screw you Sandy Plankton

Gwenn Farrell
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what's the photo credit for this? It's not actually in the 2020 finalist on the comedy wildlife site

Nick Buller
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

boys get the straws he started a war.

Karen Chaddock
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like this one. This sea turtle is telling us where to go!

Carol Stephen
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, he certainly looks annoyed at something.

Edward Hara
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How I feel about ALL the scumbag politicians that rule over us!

Cecile Desjardins
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She means it ! Hopefully we will understand and be more careful of the environment ...

François Carré
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ambassador of the whole world wildlife community has a message for you, human community.

Suzette Duby
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mostly I feel like this in the morning

Lady LINDA CLENNETT
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sums us up in one, what we've done to the oceans.

Jody Brown
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Welcome to Hawai'i. Now go home.

Owen Purdy
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5 years ago

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Chelle R.
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm still turtley shelling I mean cracking up so hard!

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    glowworm2
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is adorable! Like something out of a cartoon!

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    “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.”

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    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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    Eva the Egg
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thats adorable. Looks at that happy smile on the baby elephant's face!

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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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    N G
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well at least you can't see his nuts

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    N G
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Hello, my name's Dory. I'm a fish"

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    Katy McMouse
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And he thought his keto diet was going so well...

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    SoozeeQ
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    5 years ago (edited) Created 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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    Antonia
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let me think about that for a minute

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    postboredom
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this old age *scratch* is getting to *scratch* me

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    Eva the Egg
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No honey, You were supposed to jump on the count of three!

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    SoozeeQ
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Azure Damselfly in the lesser practised game of 'Hide and See'.

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    Bob Belcher
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    5 years ago Created 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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    Francis
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    when you stumble across your trunk

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    glowworm2
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    5 years ago Created 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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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you already busted your nut but she keeps on going

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    postboredom
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    quick, quick....take the cookies and move...!

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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hot...hot...hot...hot...hot...hot!

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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG! (Like how the bird says it in the Angry Birds movie).

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

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    I wouldn't do that if I were you!!

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    SoozeeQ
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't look now, but HE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!!!

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