The best optical-illusion photos from this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
Talia Lakritz
- The annual Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards highlight hilarious photos of animals in the wild.
- Several photos in this year's contest captured perfectly timed optical illusions.
In "Three-Headed" by Paolo Mignosa, three bear cubs stood so close together that they seemed to create a three-headed creature.
Mignosa wrote that the three bear cubs "seem to form a 'Kerberos,' the three-headed dog of Greek mythology."
"Three-Headed" was a finalist in the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
The salmon in "Fight Back" by John Chaney looks like it's flying into a bear's ear, but it's actually hitting it in the face.
"This salmon decided to punch the bear in the face rather than be lunch," Chaney captioned the photo.
The image was recognized in the Highly Commended category of the 2022 contest.
Martin Grace titled this eye-catching shot of two penguins "Keep Calm And Keep Your Head."
Grace photographed two penguins at Volunteer Point in the Falklands, one of which appears to be missing its head.
Grace wrote that the penguin on the right "must be wondering where its mate's head has gone."
The photo earned a spot in the Highly Commended category of the 2022 contest.
Photographer Jagdeep Rajput captured a Pegasus-like optical illusion with a bird and a bull in his photo titled, "Pegasus, The Flying Horse."
Rajput snapped the image in Keoladeo National Park in India when a blue bull ventured too close to an Indian sarus crane's nest.
"The [sarus] crane, which is the tallest flying bird in the world, opened its huge wings and attacked the bull from behind, driving the bull away from the nest," Rajput wrote.
With the crane's wings spread behind the bull, it appeared to resemble Pegasus, the winged horse from Greek mythology.
Rajput's photo was recognized in the 2022 contest's Highly Commended category.
The hippo in "Misleading African Viewpoints 2" by Jean Jacques Alcalay looked like it was about to eat a heron, but it was just yawning.
Alcalay wrote that the heron was actually standing on the back of another hippo.
The photo won the contest's Spectrum Photo Creatures of the Air Award.
View all of the winners of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards here.
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