Maybe this blobfish looks so sad because it was named the World's Ugliest Animal ⬇️
The canonical blobfish picture elicits squeals of delight and shudders of horror, embodying an eye-catching blend of cute and ugly somewhat unfamiliar to the Western aesthetic . With its derpy frown, glistening flesh and an impossibly human-looking nose reminiscent of the schnoz on Ziggy and Kilroy drawings, the fish was an internet star just waiting to happen.
Mr. Blobby languished in relative obscurity for about a decade, until The Ugly Animal Preservation Society thrust him into the international spotlight when the fish won the group's 2013 competition to select the world's ugliest animal. Organized by comedian and science communicator Simon Watt, the stunt aimed to draw attention to less-fetching members of the animal kingdom reads the title of the society's book). Mr.
"They'll feed on whatever they're able to opportunistically take in as a meal," said Martin Gomon, an ichthyologist at the Museums Victoria in Australia."Probably, based on the size of the mouth, one would guess that they're feeding on invertebrates that live right on the bottom." In other words, Mr. Blobby had a serious advantage in the 2013 ugliest animal competition, one that most deep-sea fish would have shared if pulled from the ocean's supportive environment and left to sag in the air. When swimming a few thousand feet below the water's surface, blobfish look rather handsome, and much more like normal fish.
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