Are there ugly animals? Not really, but ... According to the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, animals that do not meet our aesthetic standards, and therefore are judged as "ugly", tend to be less protected than a panda or a sweet dormouse.
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there ugly animals? Not really, but ... According toUgly Animal Preservation Society, animals that do not meet our aesthetic standards, and therefore are judged as "ugly", tend to be less protected than a panda or a sweet dormouse.
This is why theassociation for the conservation of ugly animals. From the blob fish to the naked mole, passing through the Nasica, the monkey with the proboscis nose, biologists thus want to support all those species that are less attractive to humans, but that face serious threats of extinction.
"We need to stop being superficial and look beyond the panda - hto said Simon Watt, president of the association-. Ugly animals have often been overlooked in favor of species more suitable for the countryside, but they are much more interesting ”. For this reason the less aesthetically fortunate creatures of the natural world they must become a priority.
“The proboscis monkey is in danger and faces the same problems as the Orangutans. There are currently only about 7000 in the wild, ”continues Watt. Some “ugly” animals, then, could prove to be precious for the human species: “even the naked mole is very ugly and it too is now almost completely extinct. But the work done by geneticists has shown that it is pain resistant and immune to cancer ”.
The association list also includes the Psychrolutes marcidus, known as Bob fish, the Suriname toad, the dung beetles and theAxolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) and the Pig-Nosed Turtle. Whether they are ugly, however, is a matter of point of view.
Roberta Ragni
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