| They were viewed almost a hundred thousand times online, and each was given a score based on the number of times people 'liked' the footage. Mr Watt announced the results at the British Science Festival, with the blobfish coming out on top with 795 "likes", and told an audience he hoped the exercise would "raise the profile of some of mother nature's most aesthetically challenging creatures". He said: "We are very good at talking about mammals – people all know about the panda and the snow leopard and tigers and lions, and you'd swear at times that's all we care about. The flightless Kakapo. (ALAMY) "We are currently living in an era when about 200 species are going extinct every single day and we have to talk about the rest of it." Blobfish grow up to 12 inches long and have no muscle, but their buoyant, gelatinous flesh allows them to bob around in the deep sea. They are inedible, but are often caught in fishing nets. In second place with 617 votes was the Kakapo, described by Mr Watt as a "rubbish parrot" found in New Zealand. The bird is unable to fly and is not remotely afraid of predators, meaning numbers have dropped to critical levels, he said. The "extraordinarily flatulent" proboscis monkey. (ALAMY) Also in the top five were the Axolotl, a mexican salamander, an Amazonian amphibian known informally as the "scrotum frog" due to its wrinkled appearance, and the proboscis monkey, which has a large nose, a pot belly and is extraordinarily flatulent. A Titicaca water frog. Prof Cox, who supports the campaign, said: "There are too many people trying to save cute animals. They get all the press, and all the attention. Ugly animals are more deserving than cute animals, so I think it is a superb campaign."  via Science - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFES9AmfV-ZUtPuO8KUZNrEAoS9YA&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10304954/Endangered-blobfish-is-voted-ugliest-animal.html | |||
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