subjective creature attractiveness
Jan. 17th, 2007 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI was browsing through the EDGE top 100 list of threatened mammals
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/top_100.asp
and was indignant to see the remark: "The highly distinctive aye-aye is one of the most bizarre looking animals on the planet." The aye-aye is #16.
Are they looking at the same animal? I find aye-ayes adorable looking, but definitely not bizarre. It may be because I have a photo of one on our fridge and see it every day , but I don't think it's by any means the oddest looking mammal on the list, and all other categories of animals feature some that are bizarre as well.
This aye-aye (Angelique) lives at the Primate Center at Duke university. I shamelessly nabbed the photo from their web site. It's the one on the fridge.
http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/top_100.asp
and was indignant to see the remark: "The highly distinctive aye-aye is one of the most bizarre looking animals on the planet." The aye-aye is #16.
Are they looking at the same animal? I find aye-ayes adorable looking, but definitely not bizarre. It may be because I have a photo of one on our fridge and see it every day , but I don't think it's by any means the oddest looking mammal on the list, and all other categories of animals feature some that are bizarre as well.
This aye-aye (Angelique) lives at the Primate Center at Duke university. I shamelessly nabbed the photo from their web site. It's the one on the fridge.
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Date: 2007-01-17 03:55 pm (UTC)