Simon Watt is a biologist who loves all things science. He brings his Ready, Steady, Science program to schools, museums, theatres and festivals across the UK to teach kids about science through fun, hands-on experiments. Simon is also president of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society (for real!) and is working to raise awareness for some very interesting…different…okay, ugly animals. In this Top Ten we take a look at some of Simon’s top cringe worthy animals.
1. The blobfish was elected the ugliest animal in the world in an online poll that we ran. It lives off the coast of Australia and Tasmania and is being driven to the brink thanks to deep sea trawling. We don’t even eat them, they just get caught in the nets by accident.
2. The giant Chinese salamander is the world’s largest amphibian and it can breathe through its skin!
3. The proboscis monkey has an enormous nose that might be used to help attract a mate, or to make loud honking calls.
4. At one point there were only eight Californian condors left alive. Breeding programs are helping them, but they are still seriously endangered.
5. Hagfish can produce gallons of snot from their skin in a matter of minutes. This snot will clog the mouth of anything that tries to eat it.
6. Naked mole rats live in communities with several dozen rats. The colony is led by one rat queen; she is the only female in the group that breeds.
7. The Roti Island snake necked turtle has a neck as long as its body.
8. Aye-ayes are critically endangered and can only be found on the island of Madagascar.
9. The Monkfish is a bottom-dwelling fish that lives in the western Atlantic.
10. The flightless dung beetle can rolls massive balls of poo in straight lines, walking backwards and navigating by the stars.
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it scared me
its cooolll
well…..that was actually…weirdly..interestingly fun to see :s :0 🙂
Wow! Same animals are kind of cute
Dung bettle is just a big yuck
none animals are ugly because that is the way they are.
the blob fish is not ugly because nothing is ugly.
The blobfish is so blobby
I’m surprised that the deep sea angel fish isn’t here but I have to agree with di99 no animals are ugly it’s just their way of looking they were all made this way. Maybe to hold off predators (because I don’t think any predator would want to eat the blob fish), and people think that dung beetles are gross, but their actually helping us with cleaning like vultures and again animals have their own way to protect themselves.
all of those animals are hidiouse !