The world's ugliest animals - in pictures The
blobfish has been voted world's ugliest animal after a campaign set up by the
Ugly Animal Preservation Society to raise awareness for endangered and aesthetically challenged animals - some the finest examples of which can be seen here
Mee-Lai Stone
@mlestone Thu 12 Sep 2013 11.20 EDT First published on Thu 12 Sep 2013 11.20 EDT
Cheer up; you're a winner: The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus ), a species that lives at great depths and is rarely seen but resembles a marine Jabba the Hut, has been voted the world's ugliest animal. It inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and TasmaniaPhotograph: REX/Greenpeace
Share on Facebook Need a face lift? A naked mole ratPhotograph: Antonio Olmos
Share on Facebook Still popular with the ladies: after securing a huge harem of females a battle-scarred male southern elephant seal appears to chuckle at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, Antarctic PeninsulaPhotograph: Justin Hofman/Barcroft Media
Share on Facebook A male proboscis monkey in Singapore. With a rather large nose, which is said to be attractive to its mates, it also has a very bloated and gassy stomach caused by its love of eating unripe fruitPhotograph: Tim Chong/Reuters/Corbis
Share on Facebook The Titicaca water frog, named after the South American lake where it lives, has also been dubbed the 'aquatic scrotum frog'Photograph: REX/Peter Oxford/Nature Pictur
Share on Facebook Got my good side? A star-nosed molePhotograph: Ken Catania/Visuals Unlimited/Corbis
Share on Facebook Eye-eye: a baby aye-aye, an unusual mammal native to MadagascarPhotograph: REX/Lewis Whyld
Share on Facebook The axolotl, a salamander that can regenerate its own limbsPhotograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook A mudmask might help: a warthog with red-billed oxpeckers standing on it in South AfricaPhotograph: Kerstin Geier/Getty Images/Gallo Images
Share on Facebook Mirror mirror, who's the fairest of them all? Common celestial goldfishPhotograph: Alamy
Share on Facebook Sitting pretty: a kakapo, a giant flightless parrot, calling on Codfish Island in New ZealandPhotograph: Alamy
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