# World's most hideous animal **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 18, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850 "2011-02-18T20:45:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/1 "2011-02-18T20:45:14Z")
Inspired by the opossum thread - what animal is, in your opinion, the ugliest, grossest, most revolting of your-deity-of-choice’s mistakes? Quite arbitrarily, let’s exclude stuff like insects, worms, spiders, squid, etc. and restrict ourselves to vertebrate animals. My entry: the Naked African Mole Rat. Absolutely hideous! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/2 "2011-02-18T20:48:33Z")
Blobfish. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/3 "2011-02-18T21:22:02Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Blobfish. You wouldn’t look too good, either, if you were put into an atmosphere where the pressure was several dozen times less than you were used to. I might nominate certain species of insect-eating bats. The Surinam toad is not particularly attractive under the best circumstances (enough said). ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/4 "2011-02-18T21:55:52Z")
That dick nosed monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/5 "2011-02-18T22:23:07Z")
**Giant. _Frakking. Isopods._** ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/6 "2011-02-18T22:33:39Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > **Giant. _Frakking. Isopods._** This is excluded under the OP’s restrictions (vertebrates only; arthropods specifically excluded). If it weren’t for those restrictions, this would certainly be a reasonable candidate though. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/7 "2011-02-18T23:30:36Z")
I we’re talking about the face, I wouldn’t want to kiss a [lamprey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diversas_lampreas.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG). And to pick on the deep sea fish some more, then [angler fish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Humpback_anglerfish.png) wouldn’t win a beauty c ontest. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/8 "2011-02-18T23:36:33Z")
[Goblin shark.](http://dsc.discovery.com/sharks/shark-types/goblin-shark.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/9 "2011-02-18T23:46:28Z")
[Monkfish](http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/recreational/articles/monkfish.html). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/10 "2011-02-18T23:49:45Z")
Ugliest, grossest…eh, [no contest](http://www.noiseaddicts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dee_snider_twisted_sister.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/11 "2011-02-18T23:57:57Z")
I’ll submit the [naked mole rat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nacktmull.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/12 "2011-02-19T01:01:21Z")
I don’t know if slugs count. Do they have vertebrae? Slugs. Ug. They look like a cross between shit and snot. I loathe slugs. They’re Mollusca, so I’m betting they can’t play in this game. Never mind. They’re still gross. Oh! Oh! Has anyone done the [star-nosed mole](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-nosed_mole)? Oh! Snub-nosed monkeys disturb me. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/13 "2011-02-19T01:08:12Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > That dick nosed monkey. Monkeys with no noses are worse: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_3FTO6EjRbe4/SwmFMbh41kI/AAAAAAAAXQk/K9BUsqrAThY/s1600/golden+monkey.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3FTO6EjRbe4/SwmFMbh41kI/AAAAAAAAXQk/K9BUsqrAThY/s1600/golden+monkey.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/14 "2011-02-19T01:10:29Z")
The solenodon. It’s like a kwiwi with teeth! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/15 "2011-02-19T01:22:42Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > Monkeys with no noses are worse: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_3FTO6EjRbe4/SwmFMbh41kI/AAAAAAAAXQk/K9BUsqrAThY/s1600/golden+monkey.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3FTO6EjRbe4/SwmFMbh41kI/AAAAAAAAXQk/K9BUsqrAThY/s1600/golden+monkey.jpg) Voldemonkey! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/16 "2011-02-19T02:59:56Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > **Giant. _Frakking. Isopods._** Agreed with others that this doesn’t count because of lack of vertebrae, but if we WERE allowed to use it, I’d have to trump it with [Cymothoa exigua](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua), the Tongue-Eating Isopod. Only because it’s conceptually more horrific than some free-swimming sea bug, no matter how big. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/17 "2011-02-19T03:25:58Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > You wouldn’t look too good, either, if you were put into an atmosphere where the pressure was several dozen times less than you were used to. Do they look like hotties at their own pressure, then? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/18 "2011-02-19T03:31:00Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > I we’re talking about the face, I wouldn’t want to kiss a [lamprey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diversas_lampreas.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG). > > And to pick on the deep sea fish some more, then [angler fish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Humpback_anglerfish.png) wouldn’t win a beauty c ontest. Pshaw. I would kiss a lamprey on the lips (raspy tongue-thing??). Their cousin,the [hagfish](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish) is the worst. Imagine a lamprey, except it is blind, and covered with disgusting slime. Also it’s much bigger, and is known to “devour their victims from the inside” and “pull out hunks of flesh from carrion fish or cetaceans, eventually making an opening to permit entry to the interior of the body cavity of larger carcasses.” On a similar note to the anglerfish is the [viperfish](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1680&bih=787&q=viperfish&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g3g-s1g2&aql=&oq=). The angler is notable in that the male is like 100th the size of the female, and bites her on the side, and fuses with her body becoming an atrophied sperm machine. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/19 "2011-02-19T03:37:24Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > Monkeys with no noses are worse: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_3FTO6EjRbe4/SwmFMbh41kI/AAAAAAAAXQk/K9BUsqrAThY/s1600/golden+monkey.jpg](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3FTO6EjRbe4/SwmFMbh41kI/AAAAAAAAXQk/K9BUsqrAThY/s1600/golden+monkey.jpg) _National Geographic_ recently had a feature on these guys…the small ones are _just_ fuzzy and cute enough for me to ignore the lack of nose. Something about the face of the [sloth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MC_Drei-Finger-Faultier.jpg) is unsettling to me. Those claws are pretty freaky too. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850/20 "2011-02-19T08:07:10Z")
[RIP, Sam, the world’s ugliest dog.](http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/uglydog.asp) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-hideous-animal/571850.md?page=2)