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8. Proboscis Monkey. There aren't many noses in the animal kingdom worse than this one. The thing the proboscis monkey is saddled with is humiliating, like something you'd see in a funhouse mirror.
The Ugly Animal Preservation Society is a comedy night with a conservation twist founded in Great Britain by biologist, writer and TV presenter Simon Watt to raise the profile of animal species which lack traditional aesthetically appealing characteristics.
Brutal: Paws of Fury (titled Animal Raging Battle Story – Brutal (アニマル武乱伝 ブルータル, Animaru Buranden Burūtaru) in Japan and Paws of Fury in Germany) is a 2D fighting game published by GameTek in 1994. The game features a cast of various anthropomorphic animals as selectable fighters. It also features the ability to learn ...
Echidnas are possibly named after Echidna, a creature from Greek mythology who was half-woman, half-snake, as the animal was perceived to have qualities of both mammals and reptiles. [citation needed] An alternative explanation is a confusion with Ancient Greek: ἐχῖνος, romanized: ekhînos, lit. 'hedgehog, sea urchin'. [5]
“Obama, Biden and Harris have tried to use the Gunnison Sage-Grouse’s ugly, non-endangered cousin, the Greater Sage-Grouse, to lock up more than 183 million acres in the West,” she continued.
They are noted for having a particularly short and non-prehensile tail and highly specialized teeth. [ 3 ] Sexual dimorphism is present, with females being slightly smaller than the males, having a mass generally less than 3 kg (6.6 lb) compared to an overall species' mass ranging from 2.5 to 3.7 kg (5.5 to 8.2 lb).
The red-toothed shrews of the subfamily Soricinae are one of three living subfamilies of shrews, along with Crocidurinae (white-toothed shrews) and Myosoricinae (African white-toothed shrews). In addition, the family contains the extinct subfamilies Limnoecinae , Crocidosoricinae , Allosoricinae and Heterosoricinae .
Since 2008, the Baikal seal has been listed as a Least Concern species on the IUCN Red List. [1] This means that they are not currently threatened or endangered. In 1994, the Russian government estimated that they numbered 104,000. In 2000, Greenpeace performed its own count and found an estimated 55,000 to 65,000 seals. [6]