And the winners of this year's cutest wildlife photos are. . .

So you might have heard: the winners of the 2014 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards were just announced. The prestigious awards honor the year’s best in nature photography in a variety of categories —from “plants and fungi” to “underwater species.” What they’re missing, category-wise, is “cuteness.” And that’s where we come in. We took a gander at the many winners and finalists of this year’s awards and selected the overall most adorable photos of the batch. Spoiler: The plants and fungi photos, though gorgeous, did not make the cut. What did make the cut are these incredible images of wild animals just being painfully awesome.

This Japanese macaque is totally listening to you, he’s just checking his Facebook page real quick. Actually, the story goes that he snatched the phone from a tourist’s hands, and a quick-thinking photographer/tour guide named Marcel Van Oosten captured the moment on his camera, because he is a genius. Oosten won WPY’s People’s Choice award for this picture and the macaque won our undying love—not only for sharing our addiction to technology, but for giving us the finger in the process.

Somebody’s sleepy (or possibly stalking prey, but we prefer to think he’s sleepy.) Leon Peulinos of Greece (who is 10 years old or younger, mind you) snapped this image of a cheetah who just ate an impala and was experiencing mild food coma as a result. Note: Cheetahs are super-cute from far away.

These are baby owls, or owlets. We kid you not, that’s what baby owls are called. Oh lord, they’re cute. We have child photographer, Sitara Karthikeyan of India, to thank for this image that’s basically killing us.

Alexander Badyaev won in the category of “Mammals” for this incredible image of a mouse in Montana who totally makes us want to re-watch An American Tale.

Bruno D’Amicis earned a WPY nod for this image of an endangered Tunisian fox, also known as our dream pet. Seriously, cats who?

Viral Funny Photography

Photography (see section below for etymology) is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording lightor other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor. Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing (e.g. photolithography), art, recreational purposes, and mass communication. Funfrd will showcase some of the funniest photography, lamest professionals photographer.

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1. Nowadays, any monkey with a DSLR is called photographer.

2. May I know what is he shooting ? The mechanism inside ?

3. Mum please save me.

4. Swan-mode On. Best wildlife animals friendly photographer

5. Who needs expensive DSLR camera ? Best photography comes from Photoshop skills. Hell yeah.

6. Moon photography shootout.

7. Finest Best Biggest Professional photography camera lens.

Does the bigger means the better ?

8. There isn’t a need for me to explain what happen next.

9. Doing Photography wrongly.

10. Difference between professional photography, tourist photography, artistic photography and ASIAN photography. I like the asian one.

11. This is why a lot of artifacts in museum spoils. Due to fat photographers. Ops.

12. Fashion heels photography.

13. Respect this National Geographic photographer. His on an active volcano region.

14. Use a tripod to stabilize yourself while taking pictures. 

15. Well done pretty photographer.