These two monkeys broke away from their group to ‘test drive’ a motorbike parked near the entrance to the reserve in Tangkoko Batuangus Nature Reserve, Indonesia. Katy Laveck Foster/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images
By Jonathan O’Callaghan In overall, 40 finalists have actually been announced, ranging from a shocked elephant seal to a giraffe apparently consuming an airplane. There’s likewise a gurning gorilla, and a hare standing to attention.There were more than 3,500 entries for the awards from 86 nations. The winners will be announced on December 14. The awards wased established by Tanzania-based professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam. They hope the awards will put a spotlight on wildlife preservation efforts, while also bringing some playfulness to wildlife photography. “Preservation was constantly at the heart of the competitors, together with the reality that
individuals appeared to take pleasure in pictures of animals doing entertaining things! “said Sullam in a declaration.” But essentially residing in a country that has some of the finest wildlife in the world– Tanzania– and seeing how harmful human actions can be to this wildlife, made us wish to do our little bit to assist.” Here are 10 of our favorite finalists included.
A young elephant seal looks stunned at his pal’s discovery in George Cathcart’s “WTF?!”, taken on December 13, 2016 in San Simeon, California. George Cathcart/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images A giraffe checks plane safety in Graeme Guy’s “Outsourcing Seatbelt Checks” on November 17, 2008 in Masai Mara, Kenya. Graeme Person/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images A squirrel envisioned scratching himself in Gothenburg, Sweden. Johnny Kaapa/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images Mountain Gorilla making grimaces as he came out of the bush after the rain, in Virunga National Park, Rwanda. Josef Friedhuber/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images A wild bunny seen gathering nesting material in Belgium Flanders, Bredene, Belgium. Olivier Colle/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images Child Dormouse(Muscardinus avellanarius) imagined on the top of a yarrow flower in Monticelli Brusati, Italy. Andrea Zampatti/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images Blue wildebeest standing on a mound imagined in Masai Mara, Kenya. Jean Jacques Alcalay/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images Two mudskippers sing their hearts out on tidal mudflats, taken in Krabi, Thailand. Daniel Trim/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images Three king penguins approach the only church on South Georgia Island seeming headed for services. Entitled as Mom, do we always need to be the very first ones at church? Carl Henry/ CWPA/ Barcroft Images
