Ugliest Animals: Top 10 Most Ugly Animals in the World
Of those animals that
one may encounter in one’s life, a few are cutest, friendliest and downright
attractive. However, some animals are not fortunate enough to have that
attractive look. These species are sometimes considered nasty, although some of
them are not that dangerous. Such species are found in different parts of the
world. Here is the list of some of the ugliest animals on earth.
10. Proboscis Monkey
The monkey is non other than a whole lot of nose! This long-nosed monkey is
found in the South East Asian island of Borneo. The most unique feature of this
monkey is its protruding nose. Its obtrude nose makes this rare living thing
easily identifiable. Interestingly, these monkeys are born with a blue face and
a small nose. The face color changes and the nose become bigger and bigger
making them look uglier.
These
unusual-looking primates survive mainly on leaves, seeds, and raw fruits, but
they sometimes eat insects too. For more than 40 years, Proboscis Monkeys populations have dropped.
They are presently protected and listed among endangered species.
9. Warthog
It is a type of pig, which is apparently also the ugliest animals one can ever
find. It has broad, flat head and toughened snout. They are mostly bald, but
they do have some thin hair and thicker curls on their backs. When Warthog
males clash, they smash together head-to-head in an attempt to bash each other.
They mainly eat plants and grass and use their snout to dig out roots. They are
unexpectedly fast when they feel threatened.
Warthog can run up to 48 kilometers
in an hour. They can live long without water in dry weather. When water is
available, they cool down themselves in it. They like insects. Birds help them
fight with woodpeckers and other species.
8. Chinese crested dog
Chinese crested dog is a type of hairless dogs. It commonly measures less than
33 cm in height and looks like a toy dog with an ugly appearance. They can read
human moods and are notorious of remaining in bed for hours without moving a
muscle. They have almost no wish to go out and run around like usual dogs, but
they are vigorous enough to jump unexpectedly tall barriers and compete in
readiness. Chinese Crested dogs are profoundly
social, and are very united within their group.
In the “World’s Ugliest Dog Contest”,
a female Chinese crested dog won the title in 2009 at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, in
Petaluma, Calif. Same year, she also won Animal Planet’s contest of “World’s
Ugliest Dog”.
7. Turkey Vulture
Vultures aren’t bad looking, if you only focus on the body. They’ve big and
strong body with a pair of nice broad wings. They’re beautiful, if you not look
at those piercing eys, wrinkly neck and bald head.
Vultures, generally are associated a
lot of bad qualities, including greed, cruelty and treachery. But perhaps the
worst thing about Turkey Vultures is their facial features, which only a mother
could adore. It’s among the ugliest animals on our planet. When you look at
those knife-like eyes, their bald head and wrinkled neck is enough to make you
flinch. These birds travel thermals in the sky and use their sharp sense of
smell to find fresh corpses. It flies low to the ground to pick up the smell of
dead creatures.
6. Star-nosed mole
The 6th world ugliest animal is a resident of North America. This animal is weird because of its
ugly star-shaped nose. It has the most unique noses in the animal world, a
hairless nose that is a star of 22 fleshy tentacles. It spends most of its time
in water, however, it also ventures above ground consistently to feed and often
takes departure to a network of infinite tunnels. Star Nosed Moles are found in
low wet areas of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States.
5. Aye-Aye
Besides being one of the world’s ugliest animals ever, this creature has many
weird traits. The Aye-Aye only comes out at night. It has large ears. It’s
found only in the island of Madagascar, and is currently an endangered species.
The body and the long tail is wrapped with brown or black fur with the layer
that has white guard hair. Aye-Aye’s large rounded ears are extremely sensitive which
gives them first-rate hearing. They also have bony fingers with sharp claws at
the ends. By look, they’re some of the creepiest creatures, too.
4. Monkfish
Here’s one fish we don’t ever want to cross. Despite its super sharp teeth and
powerful jaw, the Monkfish, which can grow to be up to three feet long, usually
swallows its prey whole.
Monkfish has
profoundly ugly looks. For many years, people did not like to eat it because of
its weird facial features, but chefs realized that its appearance
doesn’t matter if it good taste. Monkfish have giant heads, and their heads are
filled with plenty of razor-like teeth. It’s found in
the coastal Atlantic area and the size ranges up to about three feet. It also
makes it one of the ugliest animals.
3. Horseshoe Bat
Horseshoe bats have a twisted appearance that looks more like an ear than a
face. It’s counted among the ugliest animals one can ever find. They are more
responsive to sounds. Horseshoe bats are found in tropical and temperate
regions. They are typically brown but rarely red. They are about 3.5–11 cm
(1.4–4.3 inches) length, and weigh 5–30 grams (0.17–1 ounce). The bat is one of
the ugliest and most feared animals in the world.
2. Red-lipped Batfish
These odd fish are generally found around the Galapagos Islands and near Peru.
Divers may meet this fish at depths greater than 100 feet, but they are rare.
They’re also known as Deep-sea Batfishes. Scientists judge that
the reason they have the bright red pucker of the species is to attract the
opposite gender. The maximum length of the red-lipped batfish is about 40 cm
long. They are terrible swimmers, they prefer crawling about on the sea floor.
1. Blob Fish
Coming in at No. 1 on our list of most ugly animals in the world, is the deep see creature blobfish. This fish lives
in deep waters of the South Pacific. The blob fish is rarely encountered by
humans, that’s why we don’t know much about it’s natural history.
Blob fish is one of those animals
that doesn’t have much to smile about. The bad-tempered and sulky looking ocean
creature become the official mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.
This named the fish the unofficial title of “ugliest animal in the world”.
Blobfish voted world’s ugliest
animal, according to a campaign, run by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society to
decide its new mascot, an ugly mascot, a champion for all the endangered and
aesthetically challenged animals.
Unlike other ugly animals out there,
it’s made of the jelly like material, which permits it to float in water. The
Blob Fish, in particular, lives at depths of up to 1189 meters where the
pressure is about 118 times more than that at sea level. To eat, the Blobfish
spends most of its time on the bottom of the ocean, waiting for a meal to swim
by. Looking more like a cartoon, the Blobfish has no skeleton and no real
muscles.
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