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Dancing Gorilla Photo "High Five" Wins 2025 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards

The awards use humor to spotlight conservation, drawing a record field of more than 10,000 entries from 109 countries this year.

Overview

  • Winners were announced on December 9 at a London ceremony, with the finalists and winning images on display at gallery@oxo through December 14.
  • Public voting for the People’s Choice award is open on the competition website until March 1.
  • UK photographer Mark Meth-Cohn shot the winning image in Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains, capturing a playful young male from the Amahoro family.
  • The top prize includes a one-week photographic safari in Kenya from Alex Walker’s Serian, and category winners received Nikon photography kits.
  • Organizers enforce a strict ban on AI or digital manipulation and donate 10% of net revenue to the Whitley Fund for Nature.