Wildlife Comedy Photography is a thing

September 27, 2015 12:32 PM

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards* showcases wild animals caught in amusing, unflattering, or otherwise hilarious poses. The shortlist: part 1, part 2 (*Google thinks this site has been hacked. Proceed cautiously.)
posted by That's Numberwang! (13 comments total)

Haha! A photography award that celebrates my favorite Far Side.
posted by barchan at 12:44 PM on September 27, 2015 [4 favorites]

How do wolves move
posted by Wolfdog at 12:54 PM on September 27, 2015 [2 favorites]

Alternate Smiths song titles: This Surfing Duck, This Gurning Horse, This Gormless Pelican
posted by knuckle tattoos at 12:54 PM on September 27, 2015 [2 favorites]

I'm guessing Google's reacting badly to that site because it's been flagged by people who were deeply confused, as I was, by the big red "Enter Now" button which takes you to a page asking for your personal information. I think in this case it's not malicious, just poor design by the page developer who thought the first thing to do was to take the visitor to a place where they could *submit* photos, not view them.
posted by gusandrews at 1:35 PM on September 27, 2015

The peeing bee is hypnotizing.
posted by dogwalker at 1:42 PM on September 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

I resisted posting this myself because of the site's weird warning, but let me offer an alternative, because The Telegraph has posted two (so far) galleries of what they judge to be "The Best Entries": 1, 2. YMMV.
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:10 PM on September 27, 2015

So majestic.
posted by louche mustachio at 3:38 PM on September 27, 2015

One of my favorite parts about the "weasel riding a woodpecker" photo is that it had a commemorative sign, which then prompted a spat from the local council.
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 4:34 PM on September 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

Stop. You had me at "Comedy Wildlife Photography."
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:07 PM on September 27, 2015

I had no idea bees peed. I guess it should have been obvious that a bee would need to pee, or else it would explode, but somehow it wasn't.
posted by OrangeDisk at 8:31 PM on September 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

I love how Wikimedia Commons has a wealth of informative and educational images, such as ones clearly demonstrating completely typical behaviours of various kinds of animals.
posted by wwwwolf at 4:11 AM on September 28, 2015

These are great! In the black and white one with the two zebras, my mind stubbornly insists that it's a color photo of zebras with the background photoshopped black and white.
posted by Weeping_angel at 12:31 PM on September 28, 2015

"..and the guy says...heh he heheh the guy says, 'WHY THE LONG FACE?!?' ahahah! AHAHA aha ahee ahoo"
posted by sidereal at 2:44 PM on September 28, 2015 [1 favorite]