What, in your opinion, are the ugliest animals that you've ever seen?

@coolcoder (2018)
United States
July 26, 2009 1:44pm CST
Okay...bit of a crazy question, but it popped into my head last night when I went to bed. What animal (or animals) do you consider to be the ugliest? For me, it's anything in the primate family, specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans. They make me shudder every time I see them on TV or in real life.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
26 Jul 09
I don't like cockroaches, snakes, worms and slugs. I have difficulty understanding that they are God's creatures, like myself, and have to make a conscious effort of will to make myself feel a brother to them. I don't have the same problem with other mammals or, especially, primates. I can find a fellow feeling for dogs and horses and a 'mutual respect' for cats. I find the apes, especially, so close to humanity that I have to love them though I feel that just that feeling of 'nearly human' can lead to misunderstanding. They are not human, just as we are no longer apes, yet we share so much in form and body language that it seems dangerous because, often, we feel that our likenesses conceal our differences. I see and feel myself as an animal with differences and, perhaps, an understanding that seems to make me both advantaged and disabled in comparison with them. I am humbled that (as I believe) God created us all to be what we are. It is up to us to treat each other as brothers and sisters.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
26 Jul 09
As for 'ugliness', I think I only really think of other humans in those terms. Beauty, however (at least of a superficial or non-human kind), I can see in many things - flowers, butterflies, spiders, snakes and even cockroaches. Beauty, I think, rests in something being itself. Ugliness, therefore, exists only when something is not being what it is made to be. That, possibly, makes humans - whom we believe, at least, to have the choice - potentially the ugliest animal on this planet.
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
27 Jul 09
Cockroaches. And houseflies. They're not just household pests. They're ugly household pests. I hate them both.
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
29 Jul 09
I heartily agree with you there. Ugly little creatures...and so disgusting, too. *shudder*
@nancyrowina (3850)
26 Jul 09
sphynx cat - That's just weird...
Those weird looking cats with no fur called "Sphynx" cats, they look like they would feel weird to touch and just plain don't look right. They look like a normal cat that has had some kind of skin disease that has made all it's fur fall out. I feel kind of guilty not liking them so much as they are cats and I love cats, I just don't understand why anyone would want to breed a cat that looked like that. I suppose the one upside to it is they can't get fleas or any disease that makes their fur fall out, or if they did no one would notice.
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
26 Jul 09
It looks like Mr. Bigglesworth from "Austin Powers," only with slightly more hair.
• Brisbane, Australia
26 Jul 09
I hate big mouse which I can see road side in darkness. But apart from that I have seen anglerfish on animal planet channel which is not only ugly but scary too.
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
26 Jul 09
That reminds me...when you see some of the shows on Discovery Channel and they show you what lives way, way down in the ocean, some of those fish are incredibly weird. They look like floating monsters. lol
@jlamela (4898)
• Philippines
27 Jul 09
all kinds of RATS!I hate them and every time I saw one of them I am really horrified. But I am afraid to kill them because of fear that my things will be damaged, they might take revenge.lol!well that's what they say, so I try not to kill them. But for me, RATS are the ugliest and most unwanted animals on earth, I don't know why they are created where in fact they have no use at all. They only make every life on earth miserable. In fact, rats are the dirtiest animals on planet, they can kill people with their poisonous waste.
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
29 Jul 09
I don't see how people can keep rats as pets, I really don't. Ick. I couldn't stand to look at them every day.
• United States
26 Jul 09
Animals...hmm a mole is pretty creepy looking, they have very beedy little eyes and funny little noses. I don't think there are many ugly animals. Strange and different sure. I don't see how primates could be so ugly to you, since if you believe in evolution, we came from a type of primate ourselves and share distinct features. Maybe you have some inner subconcious self-loathing or maybe you dislike all humans secretly? Hmm, fun question though thanks for asking! I know there are tons of very strange looking creatures out there, especially in the bug family, and the fish that live down in the twilight zone are definitely...well different, but they are so unique and I love to watch programs where they show them! Definitely an experience!
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
26 Jul 09
1.) I don't believe in evolution. 2.) I do not have a subconscious self-loathing simply because I think that primates are horribly ugly. Thanks for your response.
• United States
27 Jul 09
chinese crested - this was a dog show winner-sam,the chinese crested.
some of those chinese crested dogs.yikes. they can be scary looking.
• United States
29 Jul 09
Hi cool...I would have to say the ugliest animal that I have ever seen would be an octopus. They look to me like a big ball of blubber with suction cups...LOL I don't think you would have to worry about feeling lonely if you happened to run into one while you were swimming because there would be plenty of arms for hugs...YUCK... flutterby
• United States
26 Jul 09
There are many but I think the worst for me are spiders and all types of spiders. Snakes and lizerds and anykind of reptile they just look scary with their little eyes just staring at you. I guess that I am scared of most of the animals that do not have fur or feathers and most of them are ugly.
@Tibor1450 (207)
• Hungary
27 Jul 09
I think the ugliest animals are rats,frogs, and cockroach... ewww...
• Philippines
27 Jul 09
I think the most ugliest animal ive ever seen is a snake. It really freaks me out & it cause me goosebumps! Yikes!
@jujuby (62)
• India
27 Jul 09
Ugliest when i hear this term Hynah,Vulture,sloth bear comes to my mind.I just hate them.Hynah for its undisciplined behaviour,physic,vulture for its appearence,sloth bear for its mannerism.Hynah's howl when i hear in TV make me so restless,an ugly tone.
• New Zealand
27 Jul 09
Ugliness is subjective but personally I find snakes to be revolting. The way they move slithering around with no legs frightens me a bit. I have however faced my fear and touched a snake in a wildlife park in Australia.