Wildlife photography is usually associated with majestic landscapes, rare encounters and moments of quiet drama. But nature has a funny side, too. This autumn, new immersive art experience Frameless is turning the spotlight on some of its most unexpected stars, celebrating a decade of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

Opening on 12 September, the experience brings together 91 of the competition’s funniest and most memorable images, projected at full scale. The photographs are arranged across seven natural habitats, taking visitors from shorelines and forests to grasslands, with spatial sound adding breaking waves, rustling landscapes and other ambient sounds to the journey.

For ten years, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have used humour as a way of encouraging people to look differently at the natural world and to consider why biodiversity conservation matters. The resulting photographs capture wildlife at its most wonderfully awkward, surprising and relatable, from a laughing dormouse to a happy turtle. Here are some of the best moments from the collection.

A baby dormouse seen laughing on a yarrow flower in Italy

Lions having a good chuckle in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

A brown bear gurns for Valtteri Mulkahainen, who took the shot in the Suomussalmi district of his native Finland

Two rose-ringed parakeets in Kaudulla national park, Sri Lanka

A fox face-planting in the snow, captured in Yellowstone National Park, United States

A Balkan pond turtle shares a moment with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Jezreel Valley, Israel

A gorilla picks its nose in Tanzania

Two gentoo penguins photographed on the Falkland Islands

A cheerful parrotfish in the Canary Islands, Spain

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