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2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Winners

the competition is open to wildlife photography novices, amateurs, and professionals, celebrating the hilarity of our natural world and highlighting what we need to do to protect it

full roster of this year's winners with narratives by the photographers: X

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Look at this girl go! What a champ huh?

Finally, it has begun!! The rainbow trout are all grown and it’s time to give them a little spin in the swimming respirometer. This girl was understandably pretty shocked about being measured and weighed but she quickly recovered once in the respirometer — the fish is swimming against a certain water flow (here it’s about half a body length per second) and she seemed to immediately realise what to do. My supervisor explained that in earlier experiments with brown trout, the brown trout were more prone to not swimming at all and laying on the net in the back, but rainbow trout are more cooperative and raring to go!

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Sailfin shiner | Pteronotropis hypselopterus

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Common Torpedo aka Eyed Electric Ray (Torpedo torpedo), family Torpedinidae, order Torpediniformes, Corsica

photograph by Robert Pillon

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Red Indian Fish (Pataecus fronto), family Pataecidae, order Scorpaeniformes, found in the coastal waters of western and southern Australia

photograph by JW Turnbull

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Candy Darter (Etheostoma osburni), family Percidae, order Perciformes, found in the Kanawha River system in Virginia and West Virginia, USA

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Ryan Hagerty

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My favourite fish! Native Brook Trout.

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Poor trout

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Wahoo

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The computer is a machine built for looking at pictures of fish you wouldn't otherwise see. Anything else you can do with a computer was an accident and unintended

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what size do y'all think separates a pond from a lake

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Sea Lemon! (2021)

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Daily fish fact #379

French angelfish!

Despite the name, they live in the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, from the state of New York all the way down to Brazil! It seems they display monogamy, with two fish viciously defending their single territory from other French angelfish.

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feeeesh!!