Even the monkeys are laughing as Europe’s zookeepers share their funniest photos of the year
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Zookeepers from across Europe have shared their funny animal photos of the year in an annual competition.
The astonishing photos came from zoos and wildlife parks in Britain, France and Denmark.
The informal competition is organized by the Zoo Keepers Europe Facebook page, which has 14,500 members from across the continent.
Some of the best entries from Britain included a cheeky laughing Barbary macaque at Colchester Zoo, a shocked lemur from West Lothian and a beautiful snow leopard from the Scottish Highlands.
Cheeky smiles are the specialty of Sagro the Barbary macaque, who lives at Colchester Zoo. His zookeeper Lisa Davis took this hilarious photo of him grinning into the camera
This red panda closed his eyes in blessing as he smelled flowers at Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian in a photo by Ryan Colman
Zookeeper Joanna Burch took this photo of two white rhinos at Colchester Zoo this year
ZSL London Zoo’s Gulid the dwarf mongoose looked curiously into the lens of zookeeper Ruth Sutherland, who captured this adorable photo
Millie Sewell took the photo on the left of Blossom, the curious European badger who lives at the British Wildlife Center in East Surrey. “She has a slightly crooked nose as a result of a car accident before she was rescued as a cub,” Ms Sewell said. Rodrigues the Fruit Bat at Tropical Butterfly House conservation park near Sheffield likes to hang out upside down, as the photo on the right, taken by Ellie Latham, shows
Howler monkey Mayantu was caught by zookeeper Lorena Jota Hickey putting a watermelon in his mouth at the Zoo de Beauval in France
These adorable Arctic wolf cubs were captured by Christina Christensen while they were playing at Knuthenborg Safari Park in Denmark
Judith Bowman captured the mesmerizing photo at left of a Snow Leopard at Highland Wildlife Park. Bellatrix the Black Hornbill looks curiously (right) into Natalie Marshall’s camera at Birdworld in Farnham
A shocked ring-tailed lemur was captured by zookeeper Ryan Colman at Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian
Border Crowned Crane Kwanza taking a stand while being photographed by Zoe Michelle Cropper at Noah’s Ark Farm in Clevedon
Ash and Friston, the Eurasian Lynx (left) demonstrating their roar to Emma Reekie in Drusillas Park in Sussex. Eden Willmott took the photo to the right of Little Miss Baby, a rescued seal pup at Natureland Seal Sanctuary in Skegness