Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2021: These are the winners

(CNN) – A picture Mono She also won the overall award at this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards with a painful expression.

Photo by British fan Ken Jensen, winner of the contest with 7,000 nominees, according to the report of the Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards released on Wednesday.

Jensen filmed on a bridge over the Xun River in Yunnan, southwest China in 2016, capturing the moment when the male monkey was sitting on one of the cables supporting the bridge.

“I was very pleased to learn that my work was a success, especially when so many wonderful photos were submitted,” Jensen said in the statement.

“The publicity I’ve received for my film in recent months has been incredible. It’s a very good feeling to know that your film makes people around the world laugh, as well as to support some worthy security reasons. Pain.”

This year the competition will donate 10% of its total net income to Save Wild Orangutans, which works to protect wild orangutans in Kunung Palung National Park in Borneo.

John Spears won the Affinity Photo People’s Choice Award for the image of a dove with a leaf on its face, and Arthur Trevino won the animal category with a photo of a small prairie dog bald eagle.

A mother otter plays hard with her cub, takes home the Water Creatures Award for Sea Key Dio, and wins the Vicky Jaron Portfolio Award for her collection of four pictures of a young elephant having fun in the mud at Park Matusadona in Zimbabwe. .

Also the winner of the video genre is Rahul Lakhmani, whose work shows a white-throated Kingfisher who looks like he is dropping another bird with an overly excited hug.

Last year, a photo of a turtle taken by Mark Fitzpatrick looked like he was raising his middle finger towards the camera, and two years ago Sarah Skinner took first place with a photo of a lion cub and a big cat.