Comedy Wildlife Awards 2019: These photos will leave you in splits

2019 edition of Comedy Wildlife Photography recently released its list of winners. A photograph ed in wilderness of Botswana was awarded overall winner of Comedy Wildlife Awards. picture titled "Grab by ...." h an awkwardly-timed photo of a lion's cub and was ed by Sarah Skinner. According to reports, Sarah said that she was happy to know that her picture will be a source of laughter and happiness in different parts of world.

se pictures will leave you in splits

Vlo Pirsa's picture titled "Family disagreement" a picture of colorful birds perched on a branch in Croatia won award in 'Creatures in air' category whereas Olympus Creatures Under Water Award was given to Harry Walker's picture titled "Oh My". Walker's picture also won People's choice award.

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'Contest was started with an aim to spre awareness'

Comedy Wildlife Photography contest is brainchild of Tanzania-based wildlife photographers Toma Sullam and Paul Joynson who both started contest in 2014. sole aim behind competition was to approach topic of wildlife conservation in a unique way by mixing humor with helping wildlife.

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Tom Sullam who is also co-founder of awards, told Guinness World Records that competition was born out of a desire in order to show that animals living in wild can be funny, can entertain human beings and make everyone realize that humans share planet with se animals. 

He furr ded that photography was thought to be a way to promote wildlife conservation and act as a mechanism to build positive bonds. He also said that this year's competition attracted approximately 4,000 entries from 68 different countries.
y work in collaboration with Born Free Foundation in order to encourage conservation through means of competition by raising awareness about endangered wildlife species.

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(With inputs from agencies)