A crimson squirrel diving headlong right into a tree snags the highest award within the 2024 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Images Awards (beforehand), snapped by Italian photographer Milko Marchetti. “He has been sitting on this beauty of a shot for a couple of years now and decided that this year was the year to enter it,” the organizers say. “We are chuffed he did because this little red squirrel has only gone and won the whole competition!”
Further class winners and extremely recommended photos embrace a beady-eyed “mafia boss” by Takashi Kubo, a discombobulated eagle by Tapani Linnanmäki, and a celebratory mantis by Jose Miguel Gallego Molina. Take a look at extra finalists, together with a number of that gained of their classes, and see your complete gallery on the competition’s web site.
