10 hilarious unseen photos from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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Two bears appear to converse with each other
"Bear Jokes" by Sidra Monreal Burshteyn.

Sidra Monreal Burshteyn/Comedy Wildlife Awards

25 award-winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest show the beauty and fragility of animals in the wild

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An Adélie penguin approaches an emperor penguin and its chick during feeding time in Antarctica's Atka Bay.
Location: Atka Bay, Antarctica.

Stefan Christmann/Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Penguins arguing, a sleepy polar bear, and a happy turtle are in the running for wildlife photo of the year, and you can vote on them

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A turtle lets a dragonfly balance on its face instead of immediately eating it, it's mouth open in what looks like a gleeful grin.
The photographer described this shot as "a moment of peaceful coexistence."

Tzahi Finkelstein / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Australia is being plagued by vicious and vindictive swooping magpies, and people say they are terrified

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An Australian magpie is shown giving a camera the side eye as it swoops down toward a cyclist.
An Australian magpie captured swooping down on a cyclist.

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They were slaughtered for their blubber, and nearly wiped out in Brazil. Decades later, humpback whales are making a comeback.

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A humpback whale breaches off in the coast of Ilhabela, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil July 22, 2023.
A humpback whale breaching off in the coast of Ilhabela, an archipelago in South-East Brazil, at the end of July.

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A nature videographer flying a drone spotted an endangered loggerhead sea turtle struggling in the red tide. He quickly alerted wildlife officials who showed up to save it.

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A turtle floating in open ocean beside another photo of it on the sand, gasping for breath.
The struggling loggerhead turtle was captured by nature videographer Michael McCarthy, owner of the See Through Canoe Company.

See Through Canoe

New images offer rare glimpse of the DMZ between North and South Korea where wild animals find peace and flourish

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Otter (Lutra lutra) living in the DMZ.
Otter (Lutra lutra) captured in the DMZ.

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Animals full of PFAS 'forever chemicals' have been found on every continent except Antarctica, new report finds

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Manatees
One study found PFAS in Florida's manatees.

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