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The world's ugliest animals - in pictures

The blobfish has been voted world's ugliest animal after a campaign set up by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society to raise awareness for endangered and aesthetically challenged animals - some the finest examples of which can be seen here

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Thu 12 Sep 2013 11.20 EDT First published on Thu 12 Sep 2013 11.20 EDT

  • Cheer up; you're a winner: The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus), a species that lives at great depths and is rarely seen but resembles a marine Jabba the Hut, has been voted the world's ugliest animal. It inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania

  • Need a face lift? A naked mole rat

  • Still popular with the ladies: after securing a huge harem of females a battle-scarred male southern elephant seal appears to chuckle at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, Antarctic Peninsula

  • A male proboscis monkey in Singapore. With a rather large nose, which is said to be attractive to its mates, it also has a very bloated and gassy stomach caused by its love of eating unripe fruit

  • The Titicaca water frog, named after the South American lake where it lives, has also been dubbed the 'aquatic scrotum frog'

  • Got my good side? A star-nosed mole

  • Eye-eye: a baby aye-aye, an unusual mammal native to Madagascar

  • The axolotl, a salamander that can regenerate its own limbs

  • A mudmask might help: a warthog with red-billed oxpeckers standing on it in South Africa

  • Mirror mirror, who's the fairest of them all? Common celestial goldfish

  • Sitting pretty: a kakapo, a giant flightless parrot, calling on Codfish Island in New Zealand
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