The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are open for submissions - here are the most hilarious photos so far

"I took this shot while photographing a group of pied starlings perched in a tree at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve in South Africa," Mayes wrote. "It perfectly sums up my mood on most Monday mornings."

"When this bald eagle missed on its attempt to grab this prairie dog, the prairie dog jumped towards the eagle and startled it long enough to escape to a nearby burrow," Trevino wrote. "A real David vs. Goliath story!"

Querzani captioned the photo, "A young lion in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, who apparently is laughing at my photography skills."

"Isolated inside with your family eager to get out and explore the world? These eastern raccoon kits are too," Biskaborn wrote. "Just when you think there's no more room in the tree hollow, mother raccoon appears and displays just how compact the space is. The babies clambered all over their mom and each another, struggling to take a look at the exact same time. This photo was taken in Southwestern Ontario, Canada."

"A yellow bittern was trying very hard to get into a comfortable hunting position," Wong wrote. "I got this shot when it was between two stalks of lotus flower."

"Two western grey kangaroos were fighting and one missed kicking him in the stomach," Scaddan wrote.

"A young springbok, all ears and spindly legs, caught in midair while pronking as the sun started to rise over the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park," Beveridg wrote. "There's not much information on why the springbok pronk, but some theories suggest it is a way of showing fitness and strength to ward off predators and attract mates. It has also been said that this small, dainty, and largely unappreciated antelope also pronks out of excitement, jumping for joy!"

"This picture was taken at Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean," Stahr wrote. "Usually boxfish are difficult to take pictures of, since they do not have a problem of a diver coming close, but if you show interest, they always turn the back and not the face towards you ... When the right moment came, I turned the camera 90 degrees to the front to just point and shoot, hoping to have the fish in focus. Never expected to have its beautiful lips that close!"

"The baby hippo wanted his mother's attention, but it seems he wasn't getting any," Bakshi wrote.

"These penguins was surfing on the waves onto land and looked so happy each time," Svensson wrote.

"This fish is astonished to have been trapped by an Amazon kingfisher bird," Laseca wrote.