The Good Morning Breakfast
The blobfish, the pig-nosed turtle or the proboscis monkey: Which of these is the world's ugliest animal?─── 13:31 Tue, 27 Aug 2013
All animals are beautiful. Except, perhaps, for some of these.
But just because they aren't as easy on the eye as a newborn puppy or a fluffy pony, it doesn't mean they don't need looking after.
So the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (yep, it exists) has launched a campaign to save these endangered species and encourage young people into careers in conservation: they are searching for a new ugly mascot.
But just because they aren't as easy on the eye as a newborn puppy or a fluffy pony, it doesn't mean they don't need looking after.
So the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (yep, it exists) has launched a campaign to save these endangered species and encourage young people into careers in conservation: they are searching for a new ugly mascot.
No beauty: The blobfish, which inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australia and Tasmania, is one of a list of unusual creatures the Ugly Animal Preservation Society hopes to help save from extinction
Axolotl: The best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders belonging to the Tiger Salamander complex. Larvae of this species fail to undergo metamorphosis, so the adults remain aquatic and gilled
Flightless dung beetle: In Addo Elephant Park in South Africa; European eels: Young eels are pictued in a basket at the Rhine river in Woerth Am Rhein, Germany
And celebrities including Stephen Fry and Simon Pegg have already given their support to the slimy, sticky, spiky, smelly cause.
Working in partnership with the National Science + Engineering Competition, the Society are running a public vote for your favourite unsightly animal.
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Photographer has his $1,300 camera gear eaten by an alligator.... only for another one to RETURN his equipment eight months later (albeit in a rather soiled condition)
Thinking big! Minature pony foal measuring just 26 inches in height is named HERCULES
Now that's a toothy grin! Zebra bares its teeth as visitor hands out snacks at Mexican zoo
The project hopes to encourage young people to get involved in conservation projects, and to raise the profile of some of the world's least cutesy animals, 'challenging our love-affair with the poster-boys of conservation like the panda and the red squirrel'.
After voters have picked their favourite creature, Simon Watt, biologist and President for Life of the Society, will announce the winner at the British Science Festival in Newcastle on 12 September.
He said: 'For too long the cute and fluffy animals have taken the limelight, and now hundreds of species are tragically extinct because they were painfully ugly.
'You can help these mingers by choosing one animal to stand-up for all the other uglies in the animal kingdom.'
And celebrities including Stephen Fry and Simon Pegg have already given their support to the slimy, sticky, spiky, smelly cause.
Working in partnership with the National Science + Engineering Competition, the Society are running a public vote for your favourite unsightly animal.
More...
Photographer has his $1,300 camera gear eaten by an alligator.... only for another one to RETURN his equipment eight months later (albeit in a rather soiled condition)
Thinking big! Minature pony foal measuring just 26 inches in height is named HERCULES
Now that's a toothy grin! Zebra bares its teeth as visitor hands out snacks at Mexican zoo
The project hopes to encourage young people to get involved in conservation projects, and to raise the profile of some of the world's least cutesy animals, 'challenging our love-affair with the poster-boys of conservation like the panda and the red squirrel'.
After voters have picked their favourite creature, Simon Watt, biologist and President for Life of the Society, will announce the winner at the British Science Festival in Newcastle on 12 September.
He said: 'For too long the cute and fluffy animals have taken the limelight, and now hundreds of species are tragically extinct because they were painfully ugly.
'You can help these mingers by choosing one animal to stand-up for all the other uglies in the animal kingdom.'
