The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has previewed a selection of top entries to date competing for 2024’s funniest wildlife photos, including a three-headed giraffe, a rather cool sloth and cub bears holding on for a ride.

With less than a month before the competition closes, the photo contest has already fielded hundreds of entries from around the world, catching some of wildlife’s funniest moments on camera. The competition organisers are releasing a few of the shots to inspire both professional and amateur photographers to enter their images before the closing date of July 31.

Now in its 10th year, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has partnered with Nikon, one of the world’s leading camera brands.

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards was co-founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam. They sought a competition focused on the lighter side of wildlife photography that would help promote the conservation of wildlife and habitats through humor.

Each year, the competition supports a sustainable conservation organisation and this year it will work again with Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN) a U.K. charity that backs conservation leaders working in their home countries across the Global South. Over 30 years, it has channeled £20 million to more than 200 conservationists in 90 countries.

The free competition is open to all wildlife photography novices, amateurs and professionals — you don’t have to be using a Nikon camera — to celebrate the hilarity of our natural world and highlight what we need to do to protect it.

Discover more about the competition and its conservation efforts.

A male mallard flying appears to be running into a tree at Chaparral Park in Scottsdale. Actually, it was flying behind it.

At Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, the expedition ship was bound in a stunning snowy world. “I expected thousands of chinstrap penguins but there were only a few hundred,” said Deena Sveinsson. “In the distance, I saw these three hanging out with one another but suddenly there seemed to be some disagreement and the penguin pair briskly walked off leaving the poor little lone fella wondering why. How humanlike. And how awful it must be to be that third wheel.”

Anthropomorphic antics of polar bears seemingly telling each other jokes and laughing hysterically.

A Three-Toed sloth in Costa Rica that looks like he may have been a guitar player in a previous life. This image gives new meaning to Eric Clapton’s nickname “slowhand.”

Two male giraffe were fighting shortly after drinking water in the green Kalahari. They started sizing each other up but ended up scooching over to a third giraffe. In a single moment, the three formed one body with three heads.

This western cattle egret thinking of having a go at the male organ of a buffalo.

This newborn seal is having a whale of a laugh.

A water cock gives a hilarious performance.

Who wants to live in a plastic free ocean? Meeeeeeeee.