The moment was recorded by Jennifer Hadley in the Serengeti, Tanzania, late one afternoon, and the image fought off competition from 5,000 other entries.
“It didn’t even occur to me that he would make a go of getting down by himself in the most un-cat like fashion. I mean, how typically do felines fall out of trees?” Hadley stated in a press release from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.
“Nobody expected this to take place and obviously we were concerned for his safety however gladly as felines do, he righted himself just in time and arrived at all fours and ran off with his siblings. A pleased ending for an unlucky kitty who didn’t quite understand how to come down from a tree.”
Hadley also won the Affinity Image 2 Individuals’s Choice Award for her picture of a standoffish penguin snubbing his mate, titled “Talk with the Fin.”
Hadley won both the general award and individuals’s Choice award.Jennifer Hadley/Comedy Wildlife 2022 In addition to offering some light-hearted enjoyable, organizers want to raise awareness around wildlife preservation. According to the press release, 10%of net profits will be donated to the Whitley Fund for Nature– a UK charity that supports conservation leaders operating in their house nations throughout the Global South.A picture of two gray triggerfish smiling broadly for the cam won the Underwater Category Award for Arturo Telle Thiemann, while Jia Chen won the Fantastic Internet Portfolio Award for her series of pictures illustrating a Cooper’s Hawk playing football with a pine cone in Canada.The image of a serene heron unconcerned to the wide jaws of a hippo yawning behind it won the Creatures of the Air Classification Award for Jean Jacques Alcalay, and Arshdeep Singh won the Believe Tank Picture Junior Classification for his shot of an owl winking inside a pipe.In addition to the classification winners, there were 10 entries that were recognized as highly commended winners.