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"It’s been a fantastic week for fans of funny animal photos.
Fat Bear Week is underway, with public voting starting Wednesday after the
event was nearly a casualty of a US government shutdown, and now the UK-based
Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards has revealed its 2023 shortlist.
The public’s help is being enlisted here, too, for the important task of
reviewing images showing animals in amusing poses and voting for the most
chucklesome in the People’s Choice Award. There’s also a chance to win £500
(around $600) in a prize draw.
Should the crown go to the spherical seal galumphing at speed along the English
coast? Or how about the elegant Ubud monkey using its tail as a fake mustache?
Perhaps you’re swayed by the delighted turtle befriending a dragonfly, or the
high-energy joey throwing “jazz hands” in mid-air.
All this comical anthropomorphization is not without its serious side, though.
The awards, founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks
and Tom Sullam, also promote wildlife conservation. This year’s competition
supports Whitley Fund for Nature, a UK charity that helps fund conservationists
around the world."
Via Lisa Stranger and Susan ****
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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